Former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal has lost from the New Delhi constituency, to BJP's Pravesh Verma by a margin of a little over 4,000 votes.
Kejriwal has been winning the seat since 2013, when he had defeated three-term Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
While Kejriwal's loss is a huge political embarrassment for him, there is one aspect in the constituency that needs a deeper analysis.
The Quint has examined the data provided by the Election Commission and found that the New Delhi seat saw a massive deletion of voters in the last five years.
Around one in four voters who were eligible to vote in the 2020 Assembly elections, were removed from the voters' list by 2025.