1999 Indian general election in Delhi

1999 Indian general election in the National Capital Territory of Delhi

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7 seats
Turnout	43.5% [1]
First party Second party   Leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sonia Gandhi Party BJP INC Seats won 7 0 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 1,963,125 1,591,682 Percentage 51.75% 41.96% Swing 1.02 pp 0.68 pp
Delhi
Prime Minister before election A. B. Vajpayee BJP Prime Minister after election A. B. Vajpayee BJP

The 1999 Indian general election in Delhi was held to elect representatives of all the 7 seats of the NCT of Delhi in the Lok Sabha.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won all the 7 Lok Sabha seats allotted to the union territory. ^[2]

Parties and alliances

   National Democratic Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Bharatiya Janata Party			A. B. Vajpayee	7

   Indian National Congress

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Indian National Congress			Sonia Gandhi	7

List of Elected MPs

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	New Delhi	Jagmohan		BJP	124,626	54.96	R. K. Dhawan		INC	96,733	42.66	27,893	12.30
2	South Delhi	Vijay Kumar Malhotra		BJP	261,230	52.25	Dr. Manmohan Singh		INC	231,231	46.25	29,999	6.00
3	Outer Delhi	Sahib Singh Verma		BJP	709,692	55.12	Deep Chand Sharma		INC	507,220	39.40	202,472	15.72
4	East Delhi	Lal Bihari Tiwari		BJP	521,434	50.22	H. L. Kapur		INC	438,674	42.25	82,760	7.97
5	Chandni Chowk	Vijay Goel		BJP	74,001	36.19	Jai Prakash Agarwal		INC	72,006	35.22	1,995	0.97
6	Delhi Sadar	Madan Lal Khurana		BJP	143,186	51.45	Jagdish Tytler		INC	129,316	46.47	13,870	4.98
7	Karol Bagh (SC)	Anita Arya		BJP	128,956	49.93	Meira Kumar		INC	116,502	45.10	12,454	4.83

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Delhi

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	Jag Mohan	New Delhi	Cabinet Minister	Urban Development	13 Oct 1999	22 Nov 1999		BJP
				Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation	22 Nov 1999	26 Nov 1999
				Urban Development	26 Nov 1999	27 May 2000
				Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation	27 May 2000	1 Sept 2001
				Statistics and Programme Implementation	1 Sept 2001	18 Nov 2001
				Tourism	1 Sept 2001	18 Nov 2001
				Tourism and Culture	18 Nov 2001	22 May 2004
2	Sahib Singh Verma	Outer Delhi	Cabinet Minister	Labour	1 July 2002	22 May 2004
3	Vijay Goel	Chandni Chowk	MoS	Planning	1 Sept 2001	2 Nov 2001
				Prime Minister's Office	1 Sept 2001	29 Jan 2003
				Statistics and Programme Implementation	1 July 2002	29 Jan 2003
				Labour	29 Jan 2003	24 May 2003
				Parliamentary Affairs	29 Jan 2003	24 May 2003
				Youth Affairs and Sports	29 Jan 2003	22 May 2004

References

1. "IndiaVotes PC: Delhi [1977 Onwards] 1999". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
2. "Rediff On The NeT: BJP blanks out Congress in Delhi". m.rediff.com. 6 October 1999. Retrieved 12 November 2023.