Constituency
67. Rajinder Nagar
Community mirrorDelhi Assembly Election, 1998
DL-RAJINDER-NAGAR
BJP 37.6%won by 2.5%IND 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.2% to 2.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 35.2% — it polled just 0.2% in 1993.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.8% between them, down from 92.3% — the field split more ways.
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
56,208
Margin
1,383
2.46%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1PURAN CHAND YOGIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,15037.6%
- 2BRAHM YADAVIndependent · IND19,76735.2%
- 3RAM ASHISH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,18921.7%
- 4B.K. PARSADJanata Dal · JD1,0371.8%
- 5SHYAM SUNDERIndependent · IND6511.2%
- 6OM PRAKASH MEHRABahujan Samaj Party · BSP6231.1%
- 7ARUN KUMARShiv Sena · SHS5421.0%
- 8MANI RAM YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP810.1%
- 9RAJPALIndependent · IND470.1%
- 10K. RAVINDRANJanahitha Paksha · JP430.1%
- 11KAILASH CHANDIndependent · IND310.1%
- 12SUDAMA SINGHIndependent · IND250.0%
- 13ANIL KUMAR DIWANIndependent · IND220.0%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −45.1%
- BJP share
- 47.7% → 37.6%
- IND share
- 0.2% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- — → —