India, Feb. 10 -- Returning to power in the national capital after 27 years, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday secured a historic mandate by winning the majority in Delhi assembly elections.

While many assembly constituencies saw the winners get a sweep with an unchallenging vote margin, at least 12 seats saw winning margin of less than 5,000 votes and thee saw a small margin of less than 1,000. Among the 70 assembly constituencies, the highest vote difference was in Matia Mahal where the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Aaley Mohammed Iqbal defeated BJP's Deepti Indora by 42,724 votes.

Iqbal secured 58,120votes while Indora got 15,396 votes. Matia Mahal is a legacy seat for Iqbal, where his father Shoiab Iqbal is the only six-time ML...