1998 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

For Lok Sabha election, see 1998 Indian general election in Delhi.

1998 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

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All 70 seats in the Delhi Legislative Assembly 36 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	48.99% ( 12.76%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Sheila Dikshit Sushma Swaraj Party INC BJP Leader since 1998 1998 Leader's seat Gole Market Hauz Khas Seats before 14 49 Seats won 52 15 Seat change 38 34 Percentage 47.76% 34.02%
CM before election Sushma Swaraj BJP Elected CM Sheila Dikshit INC

The Delhi state assembly elections 1998, which were held on 25 November 1998 and result declared on 28 November 1998 for Legislative Assembly of Delhi, led to the formation of government by Indian National Congress. ^[1]

Result

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	1,952,071	47.75	52	38
	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,390,689	34.02	15	34
	Janata Dal	73,385	1.80	1	3
	Others	316,346	7.74	0	0
	Independents	355,773	8.70	2	1
Total		4,088,264	100.00	70	0
Valid votes		4,088,264	99.11
Invalid/blank votes		36,722	0.89
Total votes		4,124,986	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		8,420,141	48.99
Source: ECI [1]

Results by constituency

Assembly Constituency		Winner					Runner Up					Margin
#	Name	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
1	Sarojini Nagar	Sh. Ram Bhaj		BJP	21,318	49.80	Mukesh Bhatt		INC	19,790	46.23	1,528
2	Gole Market	Sheila Dikshit		INC	24,881	53.95	Kirti Azad		BJP	19,214	41.66	5,667
3	Minto Road	Tajdar Babar		INC	28,815	53.73	Arun Jain Engineer		BJP	14,050	26.20	14,765
4	Kasturba Nagar	Sushil Choudhary		BJP	20,146	42.04	Ram Rattan Gupta		INC	19,247	40.16	899
5	Jangpura	Tarvinder Singh Marwah		INC	28,384	51.47	Bir Bahadur		BJP	16,465	29.86	11,919
6	Okhla	Parvez Hashmi		INC	32,774	57.83	Krishan Kumar Mehta		BJP	14,613	25.78	18,161
7	Kalkaji	Subhash Chopra		INC	29,948	53.62	Purnima Sethi		BJP	24,704	44.23	5,244
8	Malviya Nagar	Dr. Yoganand Shastri		INC	30,910	55.19	Rajendra Gupta		BJP	22,946	40.97	7,964
9	Hauz Khas	Sushma Swaraj		BJP	25,267	49.29	Professor Kiran Walia		INC	22,652	44.19	2,615
10	R.K. Puram	Ashok Singh		INC	20,509	45.97	Bodh Raj		BJP	17,152	38.44	3,357
11	Delhi Cantonment	Kiran Choudhary		INC	23,445	51.94	Karan Singh Tanwar		BJP	20,819	46.12	2,626
12	Janak Puri	Prof. Jagdish Mukhi		BJP	31,115	55.86	Shiv Kumar Sondhi		INC	23,415	42.04	7,700
13	Hari Nagar	Harsharan Singh Balli		BJP	29,136	49.79	O.P. Wadhwa		INC	28,519	48.74	617
14	Tilak Nagar	Jaspal Singh		INC	27,240	49.22	O.P. Babbar		BJP	25,724	46.48	1,516
15	Rajouri Garden	Ajay Makan		INC	36,060	65.73	Sashi Prabha Arya		BJP	16,763	30.55	19,297
16	Madipur (SC)	Mala Ram Gangwal		INC	33,639	55.38	Laxman Singh Atal		BJP	25,543	42.06	8,096
17	Tri Nagar	Nand Kishore Garg		BJP	25,776	51.09	Chattar Singh		INC	23,493	46.56	2,283
18	Shakur Basti	Dr. S.C. Vats		INC	36,010	56.14	Gauri Shankar Bhardwaj		BJP	27,371	42.67	8,639
19	Shalimar Bagh	Ravinder Nath		BJP	32,623	57.37	Sarla Kaushik		INC	22,618	39.77	10,005
20	Badli	Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal		BJP	42,259	47.95	Narain Singh Yadav		INC	37,822	42.91	4,437
21	Sahibabad Daulatpur	Ramesh Kumar		INC	35,328	44.54	Kulwant Rana		BJP	25,529	32.18	9,799
22	Bawana (SC)	Surender Kumar		INC	40,241	59.18	Om Parkash Rang		IND	14,543	21.39	25,698
23	Sultanpur Majra (SC)	Sushila Devi		INC	34,194	56.79	Kailash		BJP	17,261	28.67	16,933
24	Mangolpuri (SC)	Raj Kumar Chauhan		INC	32,372	60.80	Lakshmi Narayan		BJP	11,358	21.33	21,014
25	Nangloi Jat	Prem Chand		INC	30,533	49.00	Devender Singh		BJP	27,706	44.46	2,827
26	Vishnu Garden	Mahinder Singh Saathi		INC	21,612	40.42	Dayanand Chandila		JMM	17,375	32.50	4,237
27	Hastsal	Mukesh Sharma		INC	48,146	52.79	Naresh Tyagi		BJP	24,858	27.26	23,288
28	Najafgarh	Kanwal Singh		INC	21,111	28.02	Jai Kishan Sharma		IND	19,284	25.60	1,827
29	Nasirpur	Mahabal Mishra		INC	37,774	48.28	Vinod Kumar Sharma		BJP	36,344	46.45	1,430
30	Palam	Mahender Yadav		INC	32,699	48.62	Dharam Dev Solanki		BJP	27,152	40.37	5,547
31	Mahipalpur	Mahender Singh		INC	31,818	51.92	Surat Singh		INLD	14,984	24.45	16,834
32	Mehrauli	Bhram Singh Tanwar		BJP	24,996	37.44	Balram Tanwar		IND	22,389	33.53	1,607
33	Saket	Tek Chand Sharma		INC	24,903	40.68	Vijay Jolly		BJP	17,729	28.96	7,174
34	Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (SC)	Ch. Prem Singh		INC	27,670	52.93	Jagdish Bharti		BJP	9,662	18.48	18,008
35	Tuglakabad	Shish Pal Singh		INC	39,551	49.59	Ramesh Bidhuri		BJP	30,672	38.45	8,879
36	Badarpur	Ram Singh Netaji		IND	40,548	45.50	Ramvir Singh Bidhuri		INC	26,259	29.46	14,289
37	Trilokpuri (SC)	Brahm Pal		INC	22,887	43.79	Ram Charan (Gujrati)		BJP	18,116	34.66	4,771
38	Patpar Ganj (SC)	Amrish Singh Gautam		INC	33,351	58.06	Ganga Ram Pipal		BJP	17,030	29.65	16,321
39	Mandawali	Meera Bhardwaj		INC	24,150	43.62	Murari Singh Panwar		BJP	22,307	40.29	1,843
40	Geeta Colony	Ashok Kumar Walia		INC	40,094	67.16	Darshan Kumar Bahal		BJP	17,124	28.68	22,970
41	Gandhi Nagar	Arvinder Singh (Lovely)		INC	21,905	41.67	Swinderjit Singh Bajwa		BJP	15,143	28.81	6,762
42	Krishna Nagar	Harsh Vardhan		BJP	30,358	54.82	S.N. Misra		INC	23,748	42.89	6,610
43	Vishwash Nagar	Naseeb Singh		INC	30,380	48.18	Dr. Ved Vyas Mahajan		BJP	29,924	47.45	456
44	Shahdara	Narender Nath		INC	29,929	55.86	Jyotsna Aggarwal		BJP	20,689	38.61	9,240
45	Seemapuri (SC)	Veer Singh		INC	30,330	63.26	Chander Pal Singh		BJP	13,647	28.46	16,683
46	Nand Nagari (SC)	Roop Chand		INC	25,742	46.78	Fateh Singh		BJP	15,006	27.27	10,736
47	Rohtas Nagar	Radhey Shyam Khanna		INC	22,746	43.19	Alok Kumar		BJP	22,579	42.87	167
48	Babarpur	Naresh Gaur		BJP	22,606	42.96	Abdul Hameed		INC	21,643	41.13	963
49	Seelampur	Ch. Mateen Ahmad		IND	27,376	49.68	Data Ram		BJP	11,001	19.96	16,375
50	Ghonda	Bheeshm Sharma		INC	25,014	50.89	Sarvesh Sharma		BJP	14,594	29.69	10,420
51	Yamuna Vihar	Sahab Singh Chauhan		BJP	24,258	44.63	Pushkar Singh Rawat		INC	22,974	42.27	1,284
52	Qarawal Nagar	Mohan Singh Bisht		BJP	23,191	29.17	Zile Singh		INC	20,133	25.33	3,058
53	Wazirpur	Bandhu Deep Chand		INC	36,010	59.69	Shyam Lal Garg		BJP	21,132	35.03	14,878
54	Narela (SC)	Charan Singh Kandera		INC	19,143	37.63	Laxman Singh		BJP	16,549	32.53	2,594
55	Bhalswa Jahangirpur	J.S. Chauhan		INC	31,991	41.73	Jitender Kumar		DVP	16,749	21.85	15,242
56	Adarsh Nagar	Mangat Ram		INC	37,818	61.75	Jai Parkash Yadav		BJP	18,300	29.88	19,518
57	Pahar Ganj	Anjali Rai		INC	31,065	63.89	Nirmal Khandelwal		BJP	14,217	29.24	16,848
58	Matia Mahal	Shoaib Iqbal		JD	28,872	65.18	Aziz Ahmad Siddiqui		INC	8,956	20.22	19,916
59	Balli Maran	Haroon Yusuf		INC	38,105	70.05	Vishwamber Datt Sharma		BJP	14,262	26.22	23,843
60	Chandni Chowk	Prahlad Singh Sawhney		INC	24,348	47.90	Viresh Pratap Chaudhry		BJP	16,186	31.84	8,162
61	Timarpur	Jagdish Anand		INC	27,411	52.27	Raghuvansh Singhal		BJP	19,559	37.30	7,852
62	Model Town	Kanwar Karan Singh		INC	32,315	55.75	Bhola Nath Vij		BJP	21,276	36.70	11,039
63	Kamla Nagar	Shadi Ram		INC	26,326	49.50	Prof. P.K. Chandla		BJP	19,940	37.50	6,386
64	Sadar Bazar	Rajesh Jain		INC	32,555	63.00	Hari Krishan		BJP	16,187	31.33	16,368
65	Moti Nagar	Avinash Sahni		BJP	29,589	49.87	Kanwaljit Singh		INC	26,280	44.29	3,309
66	Patel Nagar	Rama Kant Goswami		INC	26,135	47.38	Mewa Ram Arya		BJP	20,541	37.24	5,594
67	Rajinder Nagar	Puran Chand Yogi		BJP	21,150	37.63	Brahm Yadav		IND	19,767	35.17	1,383
68	Karol Bagh (SC)	Moti Lal Bokolia		INC	26,466	50.91	Surender Pal Ratawal		BJP	24,154	46.46	2,312
69	Ram Nagar (SC)	Darshna		INC	31,794	56.88	Moti Lal Sodhi		BJP	19,811	35.44	11,983
70	Baljit Nagar (SC)	Krishna		INC	28,832	55.83	Yogendera Chandoliya		BJP	17,047	33.01	11,785

See also

• 1998 elections in India
• List of constituencies of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
• First Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Second Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Third Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Fourth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi

References

1. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1998 to the Legislative Assembly of Delhi". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 14 February 2022.

External links

• Legislative Assembly of Delhi, Official website