Delhi Elections: AAP convenor and former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has conceded defeat in the Delhi Assembly polls, with the BJP restricting the ruling party much below the halfway mark. The BJP is all set to form the government in Delhi after 27 years.

At the time of writing the story, the BJP is either leading or has won 49 seats, while the Kejriwal-led AAP seems to be winning 21 seats. These are, however, still trends, as the Election Commission website has declared results for only 52 seats, with the BJP winning 36 seats and the AAP 16 seats.

As expected, the Congress did not manage to convert their improved vote percentage to seats, but the grand old party did eat votes to dent the prospects of many candidates from both the AAP and the BJP. In the previous assembly polls in Delhi, the Congress got 4.26% votes. In this election, the party’s vote percentage has increased to 6.38%, as of now. This can improve further as the counting of votes is in progress.

Here are the top 10 seats where Congress got more votes than the victory margins of either BJP candidates or AAP contestants.

New Delhi

Former Delhi CM and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal lost to BJP’s Parvesh Singh Verma from the high-profile seat of New Delhi. Kejriwal lost to Verma by a narrow margin of 4,089 votes. The scenario could have been different if the Congress candidate, Sandeep Dixit, had not taken 4,568 votes.

Sangam Vihar

BJP’s Chandan Kumar Choudhary has won the Sangam Vihar constituency seat by a narrow margin of 344 votes. The Congress candidate from this seat, Harsh Choudhary, got 15,863 votes, which means the result of this seat could have been different if Congress had not eaten the votes of AAP’s Dinesh Mohaniya, who received 53,705 votes.

Delhi Cantt

The seat of Delhi Cantt has a similar story with the Congress candidate, Pradeep Kumar Upamanyu, getting 4,252 votes, which is more than the victory margin of 2,029 votes AAP candidate Virender Singh Kadian received. BJP’s Bhuvan Tanwar stood at 2nd with 20,162 votes.

Kondli

Kuldeep Kumar of AAP has won the Kondli seat by a comfortable margin of 6,293 votes. Congress candidate Akshay Kumar got 7,230 votes, which is more than the victory margin in this seat. BJP’s Priyanka Gautam got 55,499 votes.

Rajinder Nagar

Another such seat was Rajinder Nagar, where Vineet Yadav of Congress got 4,015 votes, which is more than the victory margin of 1,231 votes in this seat. BJP’s Umang Bajaj has won this seat, getting 46,671 votes, while AAP’s Durgesh Pathak came 2nd with 45,440 votes.

Chhatarpur

BJP’s Kartar Singh Tanwar has taken this seat, winning by a margin of 6,239 votes. AAP’s Brahm Singh Tanwar got 74,230 votes, and Congress’ Rajender Singh Tanwar got 6601 votes. The Congress’ votes were more than the victory margin of the BJP in this seat.

Greater Kailash

BJP’s Shikha Roy has won the seat by a margin of 3,188 votes, which is less than the Congress’s 6,711 votes. AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj received 46,406 votes, giving a tough fight to the BJP candidate.

Sadar Bazar

This seat has been won by AAP candidate Som Dutt, winning by a margin of 6307 votes. Congress candidate Anil Bhardwaj got 10,057 votes, which is more than the victory margin of votes. AAP’s Manoj Kumar Jindal received 49,870 votes on this seat.

Jangpura

This seat saw a close contest with BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah bagging 38,859 votes and AAP’s Manish Sisodia getting 38,859 votes, showing a margin of just 675 votes between the winning candidate and the losing one. The Congress was polled more than the victory margin of 675 votes. Congress’ Farhad Suri got 7,350 votes on this seat.

Nangloi Jat

This seat is won by Manoj Kumar Shokeen of the BJP by a comfortable margin of 26,251 votes, defeating AAP’s Raghuvinder Shokeen. The Congress candidate, Rohit Choudhary, received 32,028 votes, denting probably the winning prospect of AAP candidate.

There are several other seats where the votes polled for the congress candidates are greater than the victory margins of many AAP and BJP candidates, showing how the whole equation changes when three parties perform well on any seat.