BJP's Gautam Gambhir, fighting the Lok Sabha elections for the first time, defeated Congress' Arvinder Singh Lovely by 3,91,222 votes to win the East Delhi Lok Sabha seat. AAP's Atishi, who was also fighting the general elections for the first time, received 2,19,328 votes and came third. In 2014, BJP's Maheish Girri had won the seat, defeating AAP's Rajmohan Gandhi.