Constituency
31. Mahipalpur
Community mirrorDelhi Assembly Election, 1998
DL-MAHIPALPUR
INC 51.9%won by 27.5%INLD 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.9% to 51.9% of the vote here (+22.0%).
- New challengerIndian National Lok Dal (INLD) finished second with 24.5% — it did not contest here in 1993.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.4% of the vote between them, up from 66.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
61,280
Margin
16,834
27.47%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1MAHENDER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC31,81851.9%
- 2SURAT SINGHIndian National Lok Dal · INLD14,98424.5%
- 3YUDHVIR SINGHLD · LD8,27613.5%
- 4INDER MALIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,7487.7%
- 5RAM MEHARSJPR · SJPR6231.0%
- 6JAWAR SINGHJanata Dal · JD4280.7%
- 7GIRISHRAM · RAM1840.3%
- 8HEERA LALABJC · ABJC790.1%
- 9NARENDER KAUSHIKBD · BD720.1%
- 10ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND680.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INLD swing
- −2.4%
- INC share
- 29.9% → 51.9%
- INLD share
- 0.0% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- — → —