Kalkaji (Delhi Assembly constituency)

Kalkaji
Constituency for the Vidhan Sabha
District	South Delhi
State	Delhi
Current constituency
Created	1993
Party	AAP
MLA	Avtar Singh Kalkaji

Kalkaji Vidhan Sabha constituency (Hindi: कालकाजी विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 70 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the National Capital Territory in northern India.

Overview

Present geographical structure of Kalkaji constituency came into existence in 2008 as a part of the implementation of the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.^[1]

Kalkaji is part of South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency along with nine other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Bijwasan, Sangam Vihar, Ambedkar Nagar, Chhatarpur, Deoli, Tughlakabad, Palam, Badarpur and Mehrauli.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

  BJP     INC     SAD     AAP  

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Purnima Sethi	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1998	Subhash Chopra	Indian National Congress
	2003	Subhash Chopra	Indian National Congress
	2008	Subhash Chopra	Indian National Congress
	2013	Harmeet Singh Kalka	Shiromani Akali Dal
	2015	Avtar Singh	Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2015 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015: Kalkaji
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Avtar Singh	55,104	51.71	+20.19
	SAD	Harmeet Singh Kalka	35,335	33.16	-0.61
	INC	Subhash Chopra	13,552	12.71	-15.67
	BSP	Shashi Pratap	491	0.46	-0.90
	NOTA	None of the above	528	0.49	-0.15
Majority			19,769	18.55	+16.30
Turnout			1,06,544
	AAP gain from SAD		Swing	+19.89

2013 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013: Kalkaji
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SAD	Harmeet Singh Kalka	30,683	33.77	-0.02
	AAP	Dharambir Singh	28,639	31.52
	INC	Subhash Chopra	25,787	28.38	-23.53
	Independent	Dharmender Kumar	3,092	3.40
	BSP	Ajay Kr Aggarwal	1,235	1.36	-11.43
	JSMP	Mohd Vikki Khan	176	0.19
	DMDK	Ramu	172	0.19
	Independent	Sunil Garg	162	0.18
	Independent	Surender Singh	124	0.14
	Independent	Bhesh Dhari	83	0.09
	SP	Suman Yadav	78	0.09
	JKNPP	Ramesh Chand Yadav	49	0.05
	NOTA	None	581	0.64
Majority			2,044	2.25	-15.87
Turnout			90,861
	SAD gain from INC		Swing	-0.02

2008 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2008: Kalkaji[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Subhash Chopra	38,360	51.91	-12.22
	BJP	Jai Gopal Abrol	24,971	33.79	+1.34
	BSP	Avinash Kaur	9,455	12.79
	Independent	Sushil Kumar Agarwal	432	0.58
	Independent	Om Prakash Abrol	353	0.48
	Independent	Lavesh Kumar Gautam	172	0.23
	Independent	Mohd Alam	161	0.22
Majority			13,389	18.12	-13.56
Turnout			73,904	51.3	-1.50
	INC hold		Swing	-12.22

2003 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2003: Kalkaji[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Subhash Chopra	35,721	64.13	+10.51
	BJP	Purnima Sethi	18,077	32.45	-11.78
	SP	Kalpana	654	1.17
	NCP	Anil Bawa	329	0.59
	Indian Justice Party	Sarla Singh	278	0.50
	Independent	Rajinder Singh	230	0.41
	Independent	Aswani Kumar	160	0.29
	Independent	Neelam	133	0.24
	Independent	Neeraj Kumar Bakshi	121	0.22
Majority			17,644	31.68	+22.29
Turnout			55,703	52.80	+7.87
	INC hold		Swing	+10.51

1998 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1998: Kalkaji[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Subhash Chopra	29,948	53.62	+14.59
	BJP	Purnima Sethi	24,704	44.23	-3.28
	BSP	Sewa Singh	665	1.19	+0.45
	Janata Dal	Jasvinder Singh	203	0.36	-2.50
	SJP(R)	Vijender Kumar	99	0.18
	Independent	Parminder Singh	97	0.17
	ABJS	Laxmi Narayan Goyal	70	0.13
	Independent	Nirmal Singh	62	0.11
Majority			5,244	9.39	+0.91
Turnout			55,848	44.93	-16.35
	INC hold		Swing	+14.59

1993 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1993: Kalkaji[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Purnima Sethi	22,468	47.51
	INC	Subhash Chopra	18,456	39.03
	Independent	Nasib Singh	3,374	7.13
	Janata Dal	Vasantha Nanda Kumar	1,352	2.68
	Independent	Animesh Dass	356	0.75
	BSP	Deep Chand Birwal	348	0.74
	Independent	Vikas Nag Choudhary	299	0.63
	Independent	R N Singh	239	0.51
	Independent	Karan Singh Dewan	90	0.19
	Shiv Sena	Ishwar Dutt Sharma	88	0.19
	Independent	Chanchal Kumar Ganguli	75	0.16
	BJC	Ashok Kapil	44	0.09
	Independent	N C Ghosal	35	0.07
	Independent	Mohan Singh	24	0.05
	Independent	R P Pokhariyal	23	0.05
	Doordarshi Party	Mandika Devi	20	0.04
Majority			4,012	8.48
Turnout			47,291	61.28
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Kalkaji

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 549.
2. 2008 Election Commission of India
3. 2003 Election Commission of India
4. 1998 Election Commission of India
5. 1993 Election Commission of India