Constituency
121. Chandni Chowk
Community mirrorDelhi · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CHANDNI-CHOWK
BJP 36.2%won by 1.0%INC 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.9% to 1.0%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.9% to 54.3%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,995 votes (0.98%) — 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
3,76,654
Turnout
54.3%
Valid votes
2,04,453
Margin
1,995
0.98%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1Vijay GoelBharatiya Janata Party · BJP74,00136.2%
- 2Jai Prakash AgarwalIndian National Congress · INC72,00635.2%
- 3Shoaib IqbalJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS52,72125.8%
- 4Har Bhajan SinghIndependent · IND2,5761.3%
- 5Salahuddin QureshiSamajwadi Party · SP9440.5%
- 6SylviaIndependent · IND6650.3%
- 7Mohd. SuaheleenIndependent · IND5290.3%
- 8Dev RajIndependent · IND2660.1%
- 9Rafi UllhaIndependent · IND1570.1%
- 10Anand SharmaIndependent · IND1220.1%
- 11Ganga Pershad SharmaIndependent · IND1130.1%
- 12SiddharthIndependent · IND1120.1%
- 13AnilIndependent · IND970.0%
- 14Sher Singh JainIndependent · IND840.0%
- 15Rajesh ShardaIndependent · IND600.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −1.0%
- BJP share
- 35.3% → 36.2%
- INC share
- 33.4% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- 61.2% → 54.3%