1984 Indian general election in Delhi

1984 Indian general election in Delhi

24 December 1984 (1984-12-24)
7 seats
Turnout	64.5%
First party Second party   Leader Rajiv Gandhi Atal Bihari Vajpayee Party INC BJP Seats won 7 0 Seat change 1 New Popular vote 1,528,252 419,210 Percentage 68.72% 18.85%
Prime Minister before election Rajiv Gandhi INC Prime Minister after election Rajiv Gandhi INC

The 1984 Indian general election in Delhi was held to elect representatives of the 7 seats of the NCT of Delhi in the Lok Sabha.

The Indian National Congress won all the seven seats of Delhi and won two-thirds of the votes. This was the second of three times in which the Congress won all seven seats of Delhi, the first time being in the 1971 Indian general election.

Parties and alliances

  Indian National Congress

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

  Bharatiya Janata Party

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Bharatiya Janata Party	File:BJP flag.svg		A. B. Vajpayee	5

Results

Results by Party/Alliance

Party Name				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	INC			15,28,252	68.72	18.32	7	7	1
	BJP			4,19,210	18.85		5	0
	LKD			1,15,777	5.21		1	0
	JP			73,970	3.33	34.57	1	0	1
	INC(J)			5,354	0.24		1	0
	IND			81,420	3.66	0.25	174	0
Total				22,23,983	100%	-	189	7	-

Elected MPs

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	New Delhi	K. C. Pant		INC	1,31,932	67.86	Kanwar Lal Gupta		BJP	59,046	30.37	72,886	37.49
2	South Delhi	Lalit Maken		INC	2,15,898	61.07	Vijay Kumar Malhotra		BJP	1,30,847	37.01	85,051	24.06
3	Outer Delhi	Chaudhary Bharat Singh		INC	3,65,454	72.75	Tarif Singh		LKD	1,15,777	23.05	2,49,677	49.70
4	East Delhi	H. K. L. Bhagat		INC	3,86,150	76.95	Kishore Lal		JP	73,970	14.74	3,12,180	62.21
5	Chandni Chowk	Jai Parkash Aggarwal		INC	1,22,069	60.52	Sikander Bakht		BJP	74,993	37.18	47,076	23.34
6	Delhi Sadar	Jagdish Tytler		INC	1,55,333	62.11	Madan Lal Khurana		BJP	89,480	35.78	65,853	26.33
7	Karol Bagh (SC)	Sundarwati Nawal Prabhakar		INC	1,51,416	68.81	Surender Pal Ratawal		BJP	64,844	29.47	86,572	39.34

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Delhi

SI No.	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	K. C. Pant	New Delhi	Cabinet Minister	Education	31 December 1984	25 September 1985		INC
				Steel and Mines	25 September 1985	12 April 1987
				Defence	12 April 1987	2 December 1989
2	H. K. L. Bhagat	East Delhi	Cabinet Minister	Parliamentary Affairs	31 December 1984	2 December 1989
				Tourism	25 September 1985	12 May 1986
				Food and Civil Supplies	12 May 1986	14 February 1988
				Information and Broadcasting	14 February 1988	2 December 1989
3	Jagdish Tytler	Delhi Sadar	Minister of State	Transport (Civil Aviation)	25 September 1985	22 October 1986
			Minister of State (Independent Charge)	Civil Aviation	22 October 1986	14 February 1988
				Tourism	28 July 1987	14 February 1988
				Labour	14 February 1988	25 June 1988