Accordingly if there is one social demographic that played the most significant role in ensuring AAP’s second consecutive landslide victory in delhi, it is that of women. Not only did women electors this time nearly match their male counterparts when it came to voting, falling short by just 0.07 percentage points, they also ended up voting overwhelmingly in favour of AAP, far more than men did, disproving the long-held belief that women vote on the advice of their husbands or other male members of their family.
Furthermore the gender divide in voting preferences in the 2020 delhi elections is such that it could be argued that had women not voted in this election, the AAP victory wouldn’t have been a landslide but a very narrow one. According to the poll-eve survey conducted by Lokniti-CSDS, women were 11 percentage points more likely to have voted for AAP in this assembly election than men, 60% to 49%.
Moreover the bjp and the congress, on the other hand, received 8 percentage and 2 percentage point lower vote shares, respectively, among women as compared to men. What is also significant is the fact that this wide gender gap ended up giving AAP a massive 25-percentage point lead over bjp among women voters as compared to just a 6-point lead among men.
