DUSU Election 2026 Results: ABVP Wins 3 Posts, Independent Deepanshu Shokeen Takes Vice-President

The Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) election 2026 results were declared on Saturday, September 19, 2026, with the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) winning three of the four central panel posts — president, secretary and joint secretary. The vice-president's post went to Independent candidate Deepanshu Shokeen, who recorded the highest vote tally of any winner. Voter turnout rose to 40.46%, the highest in three years, even as ABVP's overall winning margins shrank sharply compared to 2025.

DUSU Election Result 2026: Who Won Which Post

According to The Hindu's September 19, 2026 report, ABVP's Yash Dabas won the DUSU president post with 24,576 votes, defeating NSUI's Vijay Shankar Meena, who polled 22,523 votes — a margin of just 2,053 votes. ABVP's Riya Chhawdi was elected secretary with 21,650 votes against NSUI's Namrata Chaudhary's 14,869, while Lakshay Raj Singh took the joint secretary post by a slim 837-vote margin over Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha's Vishesh Yadav, with NSUI finishing third in that contest.

Deepanshu Shokeen's Independent Vice-President Win

The standout story of the DUSU result 2026 was Deepanshu Shokeen. An Independent candidate earlier associated with NSUI — and, per ETV Bharat, the son of a bus conductor who was denied an NSUI ticket — Shokeen won the vice-president post with 30,615 votes (The Hindu's figure; ETV Bharat reported 30,634). That was the highest tally and widest margin among all four winners; ABVP's Ishu Maurya trailed with 16,901 votes. Shokeen told ETV Bharat he would prioritise student safety and justice for victims of the Satya Niketan paying-guest building collapse, an issue that had fuelled campus protests before polling.

Turnout Up, Margins Down: What the Numbers Show

Polling was held in two phases across 52 centres, with 960 EVMs deployed out of 1,000 arranged, and 20 candidates in the fray. Turnout climbed from 39.5% in 2025 to 40.46% in 2026 — a three-year high — against the backdrop of the Jantar Mantar student mobilisation. Yet ABVP's dominance narrowed considerably:

• Total winning margin fell from 23,873 votes in 2025 to 9,671 in 2026.
• The presidential margin collapsed from 16,196 votes last year to 2,053 this year.
• The joint secretary margin dropped from 4,445 to 837 votes.
• Only the secretary's margin improved, rising from 3,234 to 6,781 votes.

The AISA-SFI alliance failed to break the ABVP-NSUI binary: presidential candidate Ananya Raturi polled 5,377 votes. NOTA drew significant support — 4,310 votes for president, 4,359 for vice-president, 7,884 for secretary and 7,389 for joint secretary — exceeding the Left candidates' tallies in two of the four contests.

Delhi High Court Ban and Malpractice Allegations

The Delhi High Court banned victory processions after the results and warned of contempt action, a restriction on celebrations rather than any challenge to the validity of the outcome. Separately, NSUI national president Vinod Jakhar and Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit alleged malpractice and unfair play during polling and counting, with Dikshit saying the narrow margins on two to three seats warranted examination. These remain unverified allegations; no official finding of irregularity has been cited in the available reports. Readers should treat final certified figures from Delhi University's chief election officer as the authoritative record.