DUSU Elections Result 2023 Highlights: ABVP wins 3 posts, NSUI wins VP post, Tushar Dedha elected President

As results were announced, students from the metro station to the campus set balloons in air, broke out in dance, and showered the winners with flower petals.

Abhi Dahiya of the Congress Student Wing won the position of vice president. Dahiya won the election with 22,331 votes, defeating Sushant Dhankar of the ABVP by a margin of 1,829 votes.

Hitesh Gulia of the NSUI lost to Tushar Dedha of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) for the position of DUSU president by a margin of 3,115 votes. Gulia received 20,345 votes, compared to 23,460 for Dedha.

For the position of Vice President, the chief election officer received five nominations: Abhi Dahiya from the Department of Buddhist Studies, Ankit from the Campus Law Centre, Anushka Chaudhary from the Law Centre, Sushant Dhankar from the Department of Buddhist Studies, and Yash Khatri from Shivaji College.

Tushar Dedha got 23460 votes overall, while Abhi Dahiya earned 22331 votes. Aprajita received 24534 votes, while Sachin Baisla received 24955 votes.

In the 2019 elections, ABVP-backed candidate Akshit Dahiya was elected president, Pradeep Tanwar was elected as vice-president and Shinvangi Kharwal was elected as joint secretary of the students' union.

Eight candidates who filled their nomination for the post of president were Aiyesha Ahmad Khan from Miranda House, Arif Siddiqui from the Department of Buddhist Studies, Himanshu Thakur from Hansraj College, and Hitesh Gulia Alias Hitesh from Law Cente, Shimpi from Lakshmi Bai College, Shraddha Gupta from the Department of Library and Information Science, Soumya Kumar Satyam from A-U Tibbia College, and Tushar Dedha from the Department of Buddhist Studies.

DUSU election vote share in 2023: 42%

DUSU election vote share in 2019: 39.90%

Dusu election vote share in 2018: 44.46%

DUSU election vote share in 2027: 42.8%

Tushar Dedha from ABVP (president): 23,460 votes

Abhi Dahiya from NSUI( vice president): 22,331 votes

Sachin Baisla from ABVP (joint secretary): 24,955

Aprajita from ABVP ( secretary): 24, 534

This year the voting percentage was higher than in 2019. In the last election the turnout of 39.90 per cent was recorded.

The ABVP, Congress-affiliated NSUI, CPI(M)-backed Students' Federation of India (SFI) and the CPI(ML)-Liberation-linked All India Students' Association (AISA) had fielded candidates for all four central posts.

The ABVP won three of the four seats in the 2019 elections as well.

Aprajita and Sachin Baisla From ABVP are elected as secretary and joint secretary posts respectively.

Abhi Dahiya from the NSUI won the vice president post with 22331 posts.

Tushar Dedha from ABVP won the president posts with 23, 460 votes.

Twenty-four candidates are in the fray for the four posts in the elections.

The DUSU elections were last held in 2019. The polls could not be held in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 while possible disruptions to the academic calendar prevented their conduct in 2022.

As per ANI reports, ABVP wins three seats and NSUI bags Vice President.

Chander Shekhar, the chief election officer, reported a 42 percent turnout at the university.

After 14 rounds of counting, the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) election officials reported that the RSS-affiliated ABVP was in the lead for three of the four central panel positions.