1999 Indian general election in Delhi
5 September 1999
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| Turnout | 43.5%[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
Election schedule
The polling schedule for the 1999 General Elections was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner on 11 July 1999.
| Poll event | Phase | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | |||||||
| Notification date | 11 August 1999 | ||||||
| Last date for filing nomination | 18 August 1999 | ||||||
| Scrutiny of nomination | 19 August 1999 | ||||||
| Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 21 August 1999 | ||||||
| Date of poll | 5 September 1999 | ||||||
| Date of counting of votes/Result | 6 October 1999 | ||||||
Parties and alliances
| No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bharatiya Janata Party | A. B. Vajpayee | 7 |
| No. | Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Indian National Congress | Sonia Gandhi | 7 |
Results by Party
| Party Name | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| BJP | 19,63,125 | 51.75 | 1.02 | 7 | 7 | 1 | |||
| INC | 15,91,682 | 41.96 | 0.68 | 7 | 0 | 1 | |||
| BSP | 85,017 | 2.24 | 0.10 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| JD(S) | 52,721 | 1.39 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| NCP | 6,367 | 0.17 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Others | 30,903 | 0.80 | 21 | 0 | |||||
| IND | 63,673 | 1.68 | 1.17 | 52 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 37,93,488 | 100% | - | 97 | 7 | - | |||
List of Elected MPs
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | ||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||
| 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 | 29 Jan 2003 | |||||||
| Statistics and Programme Implementation | 1 July 2002 | |||||||
| Labour | 29 Jan 2003 |
24 May 2003 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Affairs | ||||||||
| Youth Affairs and Sports | 22 May 2004 | |||||||
References
- ^ "IndiaVotes PC: Delhi [1977 Onwards] 1999". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "Rediff On The NeT: BJP blanks out Congress in Delhi". m.rediff.com. 6 October 1999. Retrieved 12 November 2023.