Live tally MCD election results: BJP wins Delhi, AAP distant second, Congress decimated

Delhi MCD election result 2017 live updates and party wise tally for BJP, AAP and Congress in East Delhi Municipal Corporation, North Delhi Municipal Corporation and South Delhi Municipal Corporation

Early trends in the pitched battle for Delhi’s civic bodies have started trickling in as counting began at 8am. The BJP is leading in all the three corporations with Congress and AAP fighting for the second position. Exit polls that followed the voting on Sunday, had predicted a huge win for BJP in the civic polls.

Counting underway at a both at Akshardham temple in Delhi. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)

The municipal body poll, which came two months after elections in five states, is expected to set the political tone beyond the Capital’s boundaries. While the BJP is attempting to fight off 10-year-old anti-incumbency in Delhi’s civic bodies, the Congress is battling exodus of top state leaders. The AAP, which is in power in the state and had bagged 5 out of 13 wards in bypolls in 2016, hopes that the civic polls will help it to recover from the jolt in assembly elections.

Catch the live updates from the counting stations here