1991 Indian general election in Delhi

1991 Indian general election in Delhi

May 20, 1991 (1991-05-20)
7 seats
Turnout	48.5%
First party Second party   Leader Lal Krishna Advani P. V. Narasimha Rao Party BJP INC Seats won 5 2 Seat change 1 Popular vote 1,171,156 1,152,627 Percentage 40.27% 39.57% Swing 14.08 pp 3.84 pp
Prime Minister before election Chandra Shekhar Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) Prime Minister after election Narasimha Rao INC

The 1991 Indian general election in Delhi was held to elect representatives of the 7 seats of the NCT of Delhi in the Lok Sabha.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 5 of the 7 seats in Delhi, with its opposition, the Indian National Congress winning 2 seats.

Parties and alliances

  Bharatiya Janata Party

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Bharatiya Janata Party	File:BJP flag.svg		L. K. Advani	7

  Indian National Congress

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Indian National Congress			P. V. Narasimha Rao	7

Results

Results by Party/Alliance

Party Name				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	BJP			11,71,156	40.21	14.02	7	5	1
	INC			11,52,627	39.57	3.84	7	2
	JD			4,13,933	14.21	2.07	7	0	1
	JP			35,902	1.23		7	0
	BSP			26,865	0.92	2.73	7	0
	SAD(M)			9,918	0.34		1	0
	CPI			2,800	0.10		1	0
	Others			24,928	0.85		66	0
	IND			74,734	2.57	6.81	399	0
Total				29,12,863	100%	-	502	7	-

List of elected MPs

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	New Delhi	Lal Krishan Advani		BJP	93,662	43.40	Rajesh Khanna		INC	92,073	42.66	1,589	0.74
2	South Delhi	Madan Lal Khurana		BJP	208,728	49.95	Romesh Bhandari		INC	158,005	37.81	50,723	12.14
3	Outer Delhi	Sajjan Kumar		INC	346,259	45.36	Sahib Singh Verma		BJP	259,468	33.99	86,791	11.37
4	East Delhi	B. L. Sharma 'Prem'		BJP	303,141	40.27	H. K. L. Bhagat		INC	241,316	32.05	61,825	8.22
5	Chandni Chowk	Tara Chand Khandelwal		BJP	80,898	35.70	Jai Prakash Aggarwal		INC	78,124	34.48	2,774	1.22
6	Delhi Sadar	Jagdish Tytler		INC	137,453	48.57	Vijay Kumar Malhotra		BJP	123,362	43.59	14,091	4.98
7	Karol Bagh (SC)	Kalka Dass		BJP	101,897	40.23	Krishna Tirath		INC	99,397	39.24	2,500	0.99

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Delhi

SI No.	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	Jagdish Tytler	Delhi Sadar	Minister of State (Independent Charge)	Surface Transport	21 June 1991	15 September 1995		INC
				Coal	13 September 1995	16 May 1996