AAP vote percentage has risen steadily since Dec 2013 polls, say Exit polls

Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) vote percentage has risen steadily since December 2013 polls, according to the exit poll results.

According to Election Commission statistics, the AAP cornered a stunning 29.64 per cent of all votes in Delhi 14 months ago to win a stunning 28 of the city's 70 seats.

Exit polls predict AAP could now earn 41-43 vote percentage, indicating a clear and steady growth for it in the national capital.

It was the 2013 election when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 31 seats, five seats short of a legislative majority, leading to a 49-day AAP government. The BJP got 33.07 per cent of all votes.

But the BJP's vote share zoomed to 46.63 per cent, or more than 13 per cent over the AAP's, in the 2014 Lok Sabha election when a "Modi wave" helped it to win all seven parliamentary seats in Delhi.

Saturday's exit poll findings show the BJP's vote share may have dropped to 34-37 per cent.

The ABP News-Neilsen poll on Saturday still gives the Congress 15 per cent vote share while the News24-Today's Chanakya poll put it at 13 per cent.

These figures, if true, would mean that even if the Congress gets routed in the Delhi election as exit polls have predicted, the desertion of voters from the Congress is far less than those from the BJP to the AAP.

Today's Chanakya also said that all major segments in Delhi- Dalits, Banias, Brahmins, OBCs, Muslims and Punjabis, voted more for the AAP than the BJP.