and the winning margins tell their own tale in the 42 seats that the party bagged five seats in northeast district home to a dominant populace from unauthorised colonies and slums went to congress in west district congress predictably won nangloi jat mangolpuri and madipur in rithala the people voted bjps sitting mla kulwant rana back to power with a margin of over 26000 votes the other three seats bjp won include mundka kirari and rohini though it was a tough fight in some places in others it was a virtual walkover it meant a crushing defeat for former ncp mla and congress candidate ramveer singh bidhuri the akali candidate from here avtaar singh hit fought till the last but lost by just 40 odd votes at the end the bsp won in gokalpuri earning a second seat for itself times city takes a look at the battles and the winning margins in the nine districts of the capitalnorthwest and north here bjp and congress shared the spoils almost equally east and northeast districts people voted for congress in large numbers bsp put up a fight the bjp trailed the congress gains included the two reserved constituencies of bawana and sultanpur majra in badli congress devendra yadav defeated the bsp candidate by a margin of over 13604 votes new delhi district too couldnt help salvage the bjps fate here only bjps chief ministerial candidate vk malhotra was the saving grace in greater kailash the congress won all the rest including new delhi jangpura kasturba nagar malviya nagar rk puram and even okhla where the congress won despite the jamia nagar episode in southwest uttam nagar dwarka and matiala went to congress and bjp managed to cling to delhi cantt bijwasan and palam the story for bjp however was very different in narela congress candidate jaswant rana won by a margin of 838 votes against bsps sharad kumar chauhan home to old delhi and a big trader community the results were predictable however in mehrauli congresss yoganand shastri managed to barely scrape through by a margin of 1069 votes what could have been a bjp stronghold with a large trader and middle class votebank rajouri garden also went to congress here it was five to congress two to bjp and one to bsp the largely urban north gave five seats to congress and four to bjphome to the rural votebanks of outer delhi and a mix of jat gujjar and dalit voters most of the eight constituencies in northwest districts witnessed bitter battles with the congress and bsp emerging as prime contenders leaving the bjp behind in narela and badli however the middle class voters polled in favour of bjp in hari nagar tilak nagar and janakpuri new delhi southwest and west districts in east too congress won in all its strongholds like shahdara gandhi nagar laxmi nagar vishwas nagar and kondli and scraped through in patparganj najafgarh however caught everyones attention as independent candidate bharat singh won from here sahi