India, Feb. 8 -- The Congress appeared likely to draw a blank in Delhi for a third straight election, with the party not leading in a single seat in the national Capital, initial counting data from the Election Commission of India (ECI) showed on Saturday.

The party did, however, appear to eat into a substantial portion of the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) votes in a slew of Delhi's 70 assembly segments, showed counting data as of 11am. It secured 6.7% of the votes counted, as against 43.1% for the AAP and 47.9% for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Still, with a quarter of the votes counted, the BJP was ahead in 41 assembly segments and the ruling AAP in the other 29.

However, the party that governed Delhi for three straight term...