2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

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2008 Delhi state assembly elections
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  2003 29 November 2008 2013  

All 70 to the Delhi Legislative Assembly
36 seats needed for a majority
Turnout57.60% (Increase2.svg4.18%)
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Sheila Dikshit.jpg Vijay Kumar Malhotra.jpeg Mayawati.jpg
Leader Sheila Dikshit Vijay Kumar Malhotra Mayawati
Party INC BJP BSP
Leader's seat New Delhi Greater Kailash Not Contested
Seats before47200
Seats won43232
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 4Increase2.svg 3Increase2.svg 2
Popular vote2,489,8162,244,629867,672
Percentage40.31%36.34%14.05%
SwingDecrease2.svg 7.82%Increase2.svg 1.12%Increase2.svg 8.28%

Chief Minister before election

Sheila Dikshit
INC

Elected Chief Minister

Sheila Dikshit
INC

The Delhi state assembly elections 2008, which were held on 29 November 2008 for Legislative Assembly of Delhi, led to the formation of Sheila Dikshit's government of Indian National Congress.

Contents

Results

SNPartySeats
Contested
Seats
won
Seats
Changed
 % Votes
1 Indian National Congress 7043- 440.31
2 Bharatiya Janata Party 7023+ 336.34
3 Bahujan Samaj Party 702+ 214.05
1 Lok Janshakti Party 411+11.35
1 Independent 13.92
Total7095.97

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Results by districts

DistrictSeatsINCBJPOthers
North Delhi 8620
Central Delhi 7421
North West Delhi 7340
West Delhi 7340
New Delhi 6420
South West Delhi 7421
South East Delhi 7421
South Delhi 5500
East Delhi 6420
Shahdara 5410
North East Delhi 5221
Total7043234

Results by constituency

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Indian National Congress
Bharatiya Janta Party
Bahujan Samaj Party
Lok Jan Shakti Party
Rashtriya Janata Dal
Independent 2008 Delhi assembly election map.svg
  Indian National Congress
  Bharatiya Janta Party
  Bahujan Samaj Party
  Lok Jan Shakti Party
  Rashtriya Janata Dal
  Independent
Assembly ConstituencyTurnout
(%)
WinnerRunner UpMargin
#NameCandidatePartyVotes%CandidatePartyVotes%
North Delhi District
1 Narela 56.8Jaswant SinghINC34,66231.66 Sharad Chauhan BSP33,83030.90832
Central Delhi District
2 Burari 55.9Shri KrishanBJP32,00630.10Deepak TyagiINC27,01625.404,990
3 Timarpur 59.3Surinder Pal SinghINC39,99744.14Surya Prakash KhatriBJP37,58441.482,413
North Delhi District
4 Adarsh Nagar 59.12 Mangat Ram Singhal INC36,44544.84Ravinder SinghBJP31,99339.294,512
5 Badli 57.1 Devender Yadav INC39,21539.86 Ajesh Yadav BSP25,61126.0313,604
North West Delhi District
6 Rithala 63.4Kulwant RanaBJP64,47455.86Shambhu Dayal SharmaINC38,12832.8626,346
North Delhi District
7 Bawana(SC) 52.6Surender KumarINC60,54448.33Chand RamBJP43,40234.6517,142
North West Delhi District
8 Mundka 55Manoj KumarBJP47,35545.83Prem Chander KaushikINC32,45831.4114,897
9 Kirari 57.9 Anil Jha Vats BJP30,00532.73PushprajNCP20,48122.349,524
10 Sultanpur Majra(SC) 61.9Jai KishanINC39,54248.19Nand Ram BagriAAP20,86725.7318,675
West Delhi District
11 Nangloi Jat 55.1Bijender SinghINC48,00950.65Raj SinghBJP30,44932.1217,650
North West Delhi District
12 Mangol Puri(SC) 64.7 Raj Kumar Chauhan INC50,44854.41Yogesh AatrayBJP20,58522.2029,863
North Delhi District
13 Rohini 58.7 Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal BJP56,79362.56Vijender JindalINC30,01933.6626,774
North West Delhi District
14 Shalimar Bagh 58.59Ravinder Nath BansalBJP49,97657.63Ram Kailash GuptaINC30,04434.3519,932
North Delhi District
15 Shakur Basti 58.27Shyam Lal GargBJP40,44450.20 S.C.Vats INC36,44445.234,000
North West Delhi District
16 Tri Nagar 63.37Anil BharadwajINC41,89146.26 Nand Kishore Garg BJP39,22244.091,969
North Delhi District
17 Wazirpur 56.69Hari Shanker GuptaINC39,97745.29Mange Ram GargBJP36,83741.093,140
18 Model Town 58.53Kanwar Karan SinghINC39,93546.37Bhola Nath VijBJP36,93643.862,997
Central Delhi District
19 Sadar Bazar 60.1 Rajesh Jain INC47,50853.44Jai ParkashBJP33,41937.5914,089
20 Chandni Chowk 57.2 Parlad Singh Sawhney INC28,20745.61Praveen KhandelwalBJP20,18832.648,019
21 Matia Mahal 56.3 Shoaib Iqbal LJP25,47439.56Mehmood ZiaINC17,87027.757,807
22 Ballimaran 59.6 Haroon Yusuf INC34,66042.08Moti Lal SodhiBJP28,42334.516,237
23 Karol Bagh(SC) 59.71 Surender Pal Ratawal BJP38,74645.71Madan KhorwalINC35,33841.693,408
New Delhi District
24 Patel Nagar(SC) 56.5 Rajesh Lilothia INC44,02250.43 Anita Arya BJP34,51639.549,506
West Delhi District
25 Moti Nagar 61.6 Subhash Sachdeva BJP46,61654.49Anjali RaiINC31,61936.9614,997
26 Madipur(SC) 58.4Mala Ram GangwalINC40,69848.75Kailash SanklaBJP32,16638.538,532
27 Rajouri Garden 62 Dyanand Chandila INC31,13037.58Avtar Singh HitSAD(A)31,08437.5354
28 Hari Nagar 57.2 Harsharan Singh Balli BJP51,36462.67Ramesh LambaINC22,60627.5828,758
29 Tilak Nagar 53.5O P BabbarBJP38,32052.33Anita BabbarINC26,20235.7812,118
30 Janakpuri 61.2 Jagdish Mukhi BJP50,65557.15Deepak AroraINC33,20337.4617,458
South West Delhi District
31 Vikaspuri 55.6Nand KishoreINC47,81934.96Krishan GahlotBJP46,87634.27943
32 Uttam Nagar 62.4Mukesh SharmaINC46,76546.03Pawan SharmaBJP39,58238.967,183
33 Dwarka 62.4 Mahabal Mishra INC43,60852.33 Pradyuman Rajput BJP29,62735.5613,981
34 Matiala 58.5SumeshINC52,41140.14Kamal JeetBJP45,78235.066,629
35 Najafgarh 59.1Bharat SinghIND34,02833.25Kanwal Singh YadavINC22,57522.0611,453
36 Bijwasan 59.1Sat Prakash RanaBJP27,42741.33Vijay Singh LochavAAP25,42238.312,005
37 Palam 58.8 Dharam Dev Solanki BJP40,71244.12Mahender YadavINC28,11930.4712,593
New Delhi District
38 Delhi Cantonment 56.6Karan Singh TanwarBJP23,69655.58Ashok AhujaINC16,43538.557,261
39 Rajinder Nagar 52.2Rama Kant GoswamiINC29,39440.78Asha YogiBJP23,98833.285,406
40 New Delhi 56.22 Sheila Dikshit INC39,77852.20 Vijay Jolly BJP25,79639.8513,982
South East Delhi District
41 Jangpura 59.6Tarvinder Singh MarwahINC37,26157 Manjinder Singh Sirsa BJP23,31035.9613,956
42 Kasturba Nagar 53.2Neeraj BasoyaINC33,80744.40Sushil ChoudharyBJP31,32341.132,484
South Delhi District
43 Malviya Nagar 55.9Kiran WaliaINC31,82339.43Ram BhajBJP27,55329.933,730
New Delhi District
44 R K Puram 52.7Barkha SinghINC35,87853.50Radhey Shyam SharmaBJP26,56139.609,317
South Delhi District
45 Mehrauli 45.9Yoganand ShastriINC21,74032.83Sher Singh DagarBJP20,63231.151,108
46 Chhatarpur 56Balram TanwarINC32,40637.22Brahm Singh TanwarBJP27,47631.525,030
47 Deoli(SC) 56.4 Arvinder Singh Lovely INC41,49743.41Shri LalBSP24,86926.0216,628
48 Ambedkar Nagar(SC) 57.4Ch Prem SinghINC30,46743.19Suresh ChandBJP26,63036.344,837
South East Delhi District
49 Sangam Vihar 51.4Dr Shiv Charan Lal GuptaBJP20,33227.37Amod Kumar KanthINC16,74322.543,589
New Delhi District
50 Greater Kailash 54.4 Vijay Kumar Malhotra BJP42,20652.94Jitender Kumar KocherINC30,98738.8711,219
South East Delhi District
51 Kalkaji 51.3 Subhash Chopra INC38,36051.91Jai Gopal AbrolBJP24,97133.7913,389
52 Tughlakabad 55.5 Ramesh Bidhuri BJP32,63340.99 Sahi Ram BSP24,39930.658,234
53 Badarpur 56.6 Ram Singh Netaji BSP53,41647.30 Ramvir Singh Bidhuri INC40,11135.5213,205
54 Okhla 49Parvez HashmiINC29,30328.53Asif Muhammad KhanRJD28,76228541
East Delhi District
55 Trilokpuri(SC) 59.9Sunil KumarBJP30,78137.28Sunil KumarINC30,14736.51634
56 Kondli(SC) 59.6Amrish Singh GautamINC36,58045.26 Dushyant Kumar Gautam BJP21,59426.7214,986
57 Patparganj 54.5 Anil Chaudhary INC36,98442.40Nakul BharadwajBJP36,33641.64663
58 Laxmi Nagar 56.5 Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia INC54,35259.58Murari Singh PanwarINC31,85534.9922,397
Shahdara District
59 Vishwas Nagar 58.9 Naseeb Singh INC48,80551.09 Om Prakash Sharma BJP39,17641.019,629
East Delhi District
60 Krishna Nagar 61.6 Harsh Vardhan BJP47,85245.50Deepika KhullarINC44,64842.453,204
61 Gandhi Nagar 63.5 Arvinder Singh Lovely INC59,79564.25Kamal Kumar JainBJP27,87029.9431,923
Shahdara District
62 Shahdara 57.1Dr Narender NathINC39,19444.89 Jitender Singh Shunty BJP37,65843.131,536
63 Seemapuri(SC) 62.3 Veer Singh Dhingan INC43,86449.13Chandra Pal SinghBJP24,60427.5619,261
64 Rohtas Nagar 61.1Ram Babu SharmaINC45,80246.42Alok KumarBJP32,55932.9913,243
North East Delhi District
65 Seelampur 58Chaudhary Mateen AhmedINC47,82054.65Sita Ram GuptaBJP21,54624.6226,574
66 Ghonda 57.5 Sahab Singh Chauhan BJP35,22638.46Bheeshma SharmaINC34,64637.82580
Shahdara District
67 Babarpur 59.7 Naresh Gaur BJP31,95435.1Hazi Dilashad AliBSP28,12830.93,826
North East Delhi District
68 Gokalpur(SC) 61.6Surendra KumarBSP27,49928.89Balzor SinghINC24,44225.683,057
69 Mustafabad 58 Hasan Ahmed INC39,83840.70Yogender Kumar SharmaBJP38,85939.69979
70 Karawal Nagar 53.2 Mohan Singh Bisht BJP43,98042.80Satan Pal DaymaIND22,85222.2421,128

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