Mehrauli (Delhi Assembly constituency)

Mehrauli
Constituency for the Vidhan Sabha
District	South Delhi
State	Delhi
Current constituency
Created	1993
Party	AAP
MLA	Naresh Yadav

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

Overview

Present geographical structure of Mehrauli 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]

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

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

  BJP     INC     AAP  

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Brahm Singh Tanwar	Bharatiya Janata Party
	1998	Brahm Singh Tanwar	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2003	Balram Tanwar	Indian National Congress
	2008	Yoganand Shastri	Indian National Congress
	2013	Parvesh Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2015	Naresh Yadav	Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2015 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015: Mehrauli
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Naresh Yadav	58,125	51.06	+17.05
	BJP	Sarita Chaudhary	41,174	36.17	-2.55
	INC	Satbir Singh	12,065	10.59	-11.62
	BSP	Saroj Verma	550	0.48	-2.79
	NOTA	None of the above	553	0.48	-0.20
Majority			16,951	14.89	+10.16
Turnout			1,13,830
	AAP gain from BJP		Swing	+15.78

2013 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013: Mehrauli [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Parvesh Sahib Singh	37,481	38.72	+7.57
	AAP	Narinder Singh Sejwal	32,917	34.01
	INC	Dr Yoganand Shastri	21,494	22.21	-10.62
	BSP	Surender Kumar	3,170	3.27	-5.33
	NCP	Prem Dutt Sharma	644	0.67
	ACP	Narender Singh	209	0.22
	Independent	Bimlesh Kumar Jha	117	0.12
	Independent	Anupam Kumar Sharma	105	0.11
	NOTA	None	657	0.68
Majority			4,564	4.72	+3.04
Turnout			96,794
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	+7.57

2008 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2008: Mehrauli[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dr Yoganand Shastri	21,740	32.83	-23.65
	BJP	Sher Singh Dagar	20,632	31.15	-9.11
	Independent	Satbir Singh	14,954	22.58
	BSP	Ved Prakash	5,697	8.60	+7.51
	NCP	Jagdish Singh Lohia	1,892	2.86
	RKJP	Arvind Gupta	355	0.54
	Independent	Abdul Saleem	253	0.38
	Independent	Sandeep Panwar	167	0.25
	NJD	Kunwar Pal Singh	120	0.18
	RJSP	Raghunath Chauhan	119	0.18
	Independent	Anju Singh	106	0.16
	LNJSP	Shaheeda Parwin	102	0.15
	Independent	Tribhuvan Singh	87	0.13
Majority			1,108	1.68	-14.54
Turnout			66,224	45.9	-10.47
	INC hold		Swing	-23.65

2003 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2003: Mehrauli[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Balram Tanwar	40,595	56.48	+22.95
	BJP	Brahm Singh Tanwar	28,939	40.26	+2.82
	BSP	Baljeet Singh Deswal	781	1.09	+0.71
	Independent	Raghvinder Bakshi	641	0.89
	Shiv Sena	Kiran Singh	442	0.61
	JKNPP	Sunita Choudhary	184	0.26
	Independent	Gojo Kinar	120	0.17
	JD(S)	Tilak	91	0.13
	AWP	Tariq Moin Rizvi	87	0.12
Majority			11,656	16.22	+12.31
Turnout			71,880	56.37	+4.49
	INC hold		Swing	+22.95

1998 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1998: Mehrauli[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Brahm Singh Tanwar	24,996	37.44	-8.83
	Independent	Balram Tanwar	22,389	33.53
	INC	Vijay Deep	17,427	26.10	-6.85
	Independent	Kiran Singh	480	0.72
	Janata Dal	Ranjeet	385	0.58	-16.28
	United Citizens	Robert Massey	324	0.49
	BSP	Om Prakash	251	0.38
	LSWP	Gurudev Singh	169	0.25
	Independent	Yogheshwar Bisht	136	0.20
	Independent	Sunder	129	0.19
	SJP(R)	Nanak Chand	79	0.12
Majority			2,607	3.91	-9.41
Turnout			66,765	51.88	-9.70
	BJP hold		Swing	-8.83

1993 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1993: Mehrauli[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Brahm Singh Tanwar	24,396	46.27
	INC	Balram Tanwar	17,375	32.95
	Janata Dal	Nathu Singh	8,889	16.86
	CPI	Sri Chand	1,355	2.57
	Independent	Balraj	350	0.66
	Independent	Karan Singh	178	0.34
	Independent	Sat Pal	61	0.12
	Independent	Rishi Pal	47	0.09
	Doordarshi Party	Alka Pandey	42	0.08
	Independent	Mahender Singh	32	0.06
Majority			7,021	13.32
Turnout			52,725	61.58
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

Mehrauli

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 549.
2. Assembly Elections December 2013 Results, Election Commission of India
3. 2008 Election Commission of India
4. 2003 Election Commission of India
5. 1998 Election Commission of India
6. 1993 Election Commission of India