Constituency
57. Patpar Ganj
Community mirrorDelhi Assembly Election, 2008
DL-PATPAR-GANJ
INC 42.4%won by 0.8%BJP 41.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.0% to 0.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 663 votes (0.76%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
87,267
Margin
663
0.76%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1ANIL KUMARIndian National Congress · INC36,99942.4%
- 2NAKUL BHARDWAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,33641.6%
- 3MADAN SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP12,03213.8%
- 4SHASHI KUMARCommunist Party of India · CPI6130.7%
- 5PARMODIndependent · IND4620.5%
- 6KRISHAN KAMALNationalist Congress Party · NCP3100.4%
- 7JAIVEER CHAUDHARYSamajwadi Party · SP2480.3%
- 8SHYAMJI RAIAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM1010.1%
- 9GOPAL LAL SHARMAIndependent · IND920.1%
- 10SHER MOHAMMEDJanata Dal (United) · JDU740.1%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −25.3%
- INC share
- 53.4% → 42.4%
- BJP share
- 27.4% → 41.6%
- Turnout
- — → —