Constituency
118. South Delhi
Community mirrorDelhi · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-SOUTH-DELHI
BJP 52.3%won by 6.0%INC 46.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.7% to 6.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.0% to 41.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,94,198
Turnout
41.9%
Valid votes
4,99,937
Margin
29,999
6.00%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1Vijay Kumar MalhotraBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,61,23052.3%
- 2Dr. Manmohan SinghIndian National Congress · INC2,31,23146.3%
- 3Mohd. SarifIndependent · IND2,8460.6%
- 4Narender Nath ShuklaBD · BD1,0210.2%
- 5Ved ParkashIndependent · IND8860.2%
- 6Dinesh JainIndependent · IND6160.1%
- 7Ghanshyam DassIndependent · IND4800.1%
- 8PremaNationalist Congress Party · NCP4240.1%
- 9Janis DarbariIndependent · IND3410.1%
- 10Joginder SinghIndependent · IND3220.1%
- 11Ashok KumarIndependent · IND2840.1%
- 12Khairati LalIndependent · IND2560.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −14.7%
- BJP share
- 58.8% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 46.3%
- Turnout
- 48.8% → 41.9%