Constituency
31. Mahipalpur
Community mirrorDelhi Assembly Election, 2003
DL-MAHIPALPUR
INC 45.7%won by 7.5%BJP 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.5% to 7.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 38.2% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.4% — 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
66,097
Margin
4,958
7.50%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1VIJAY SINGH LOCHAVIndian National Congress · INC30,23045.7%
- 2SAT PARKASH RANABharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,27238.2%
- 3DINESH KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,9759.0%
- 4HARIOMSamajwadi Party · SP1,7062.6%
- 5VIRENDER @ BINDU DAGARIndian National Lok Dal · INLD1,0931.7%
- 6RANJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3950.6%
- 7SOMPALASP · ASP3800.6%
- 8VIRENDER SINGHIndependent · IND3060.5%
- 9MAHENDER PAL VAIDBLCP · BLCP2870.4%
- 10RAM AVTARAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM1910.3%
- 11ANIT GAURIndependent · IND1360.2%
- 12SUMER SINGHJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1260.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −44.4%
- INC share
- 51.9% → 45.7%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —