Rajouri Garden (Delhi Assembly constituency)

Rajouri Garden
Rajouri Garden
Constituency; for the the Delhi Legislative Assembly
District	New Delhi
State	Delhi
Current constituency
Created	1993
Party	AAP
MLA	Dhanwati Chandela

Rajouri Garden Vidhan Sabha constituency is one of the 70 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the National Capital Territory in India.

Overview[edit | edit source]

The current Rajouri Garden 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]

Rajouri Garden is part of West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency along with nine other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Madipur, Tilak Nagar, Hari Nagar, Najafgarh, Janakpuri, Vikaspuri, Dwarka, Matiala and Uttam Nagar.

Members of Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

Election	Member
1993	Ajay Maken	Indian National Congress
1998
2003
2004 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Ramesh Lamba
2008	Dyanand Chandila
2013	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	Shiromani Akali Dal
2015	Jarnail Singh	Aam Aadmi Party
2017 ^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	Bharatiya Janata Party
2020	Dhanwati Chandela	Aam Aadmi Party

↑ By-election held due to election of Ajay Maken as MP for New Delhi
↑ By-poll

Election results[edit | edit source]

2020 Results[edit | edit source]

2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election: Rajouri Garden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Dhanwati Chandela	62,212	55.70	+42.58
	BJP	Ramesh Khanna	39,240	35.13	-16.86
	Independent	Sukhpal Singh	5,218	4.67	New
	INC	Amandeep Singh Sudan	3,398	3.04	-30.19
	NOTA	None of the Above	694	0.62	-0.20
Majority			22,972	20.57	+1.81
Turnout			1,11,771	62.01
	AAP gain from BJP		Swing	+42.58

Elections in the 2010s[edit | edit source]

Bye-election, 2017: Rajouri Garden^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	40,602	51.99	+13.95
	INC	Meenakshi Chandela	25,950	33.23	+21.23
	AAP	Harjeet Singh	10,243	13.12	-33.43
	Independent	Hardeep Singh	225	0.29	N/A
	Independent	Davinder Singh Negi	219	0.28	N/A
	AIFB	Lalit Taak	211	0.27	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	641	0.82	+0.27
Majority			14,652	18.76	+10.25
Turnout			78,091	47.32	-25.04
Registered electors			1,68,026
	BJP gain from AAP		Swing	+23.69

2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election: Rajouri Garden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Jarnail Singh (born 1973)	54,916	46.55	+29.85
	SAD	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	44,880	38.04	-2.89
	INC	Meenakshi Chandela	14,167	12.01	-18.12
	SHS	Gurbaksh Singh	1,706	1.45	+0.09
	BSP	Moin Khan	384	0.33	-0.22
	Independent	Jarnail Singh	382	0.32
	Independent	Jarnail Singh	280	0.24
	Independent	Sumit	240	0.20
	Independent	Suman Chandila	101	0.09
	Independent	Lokesh	88	0.07
	Independent	Livis Chandela	74	0.06
	Independent	Praveen Kumar	39	0.03
	Independent	Jasvindra Singh	36	0.03
	Independent	Bhagat Singh	29	0.02
	NOTA	None of the Above	649	0.55	-0.62
Majority			10,036	8.51	-2.29
Turnout			1,17,977	72.36	+3.44
Registered electors			1,63,042
	AAP gain from SAD		Swing	+28.71

2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election: Rajouri Garden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SAD	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	41,721	40.93
	INC	Dhanwanti Chandela	30,713	30.13	-7.45
	AAP	Prit Pal Singh	17,022	16.70
	NCP	Jai Prakash Lohia	5,752	5.64	-12.99
	Independent	Rajender	2,468	2.42
	SHS	Jasvinder Singh	1,389	1.36
	BSP	Anil Kumar Khanna	565	0.55	-1.34
	JD(U)	Moin Khan	311	0.31
style="background-color: Template:Delhi Janata Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Delhi Janata Party\|Template:Delhi Janata Party/meta/shortname]]	Gurcharan Singh	308	0.30
	Independent	Gian Singh Godpal	188	0.18
	Independent	Harun Khan	172	0.17
	Independent	Manish Chandila	122	0.12
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,194	1.17
Majority			11,008	10.80	+10.75
Turnout			1,01,947	68.93
	SAD gain from INC		Swing

Elections in the 2000s[edit | edit source]

2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly election: Rajouri Garden^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dyanand Chandila	31,130	37.58	-12.37
style="background-color: Template:Shiromani Akali Dal (Simranjit Singh Mann)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Shiromani Akali Dal (Simranjit Singh Mann)\|Template:Shiromani Akali Dal (Simranjit Singh Mann)/meta/shortname]]	Avtar Singh Hit	31,084	37.53
	NCP	Duli Chand	15,434	18.63
	BSP	Shamsher Singh Mehendi	1,563	1.89	-5.34
	Independent	Vinod Sharma	1,469	1.77
	Independent	Balbir Singh Bir	240	0.29
	Independent	Nawab Singh	227	0.27
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party\|Template:Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party/meta/shortname]]	Bahar Miya	220	0.27	+0.10
	Independent	Rajindar Kumar	205	0.25
	Independent	Sarabjeet Singh	203	0.25
style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Pragatisheel Congress/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Bharatiya Pragatisheel Congress\|Template:Bharatiya Pragatisheel Congress/meta/shortname]]	Amarjeet Kaur	169	0.20
	Independent	Amit Chandela	124	0.15
	Independent	Daljeet Singh	115	0.14
	Independent	Kuldeep Singh Anand	107	0.13
style="background-color: Template:Hind Raksha Sena/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Hind Raksha Sena\|Template:Hind Raksha Sena/meta/shortname]]	Bhagwan Dass	98	0.12
	Independent	Avtar Singh Diwan	86	0.10
	Independent	Jai Prakash Dhiman	80	0.10
	Independent	Jai Prakash Lohia	69	0.08
	Independent	Gajendra Yadav	61	0.07
	Independent	Om Prakash	54	0.07
	Independent	Vijender	50	0.06
	Independent	Rasid Khan	45	0.05
Majority			54	0.05	-9.44
Turnout			82,833	62.0	+24.05
	INC hold		Swing	-12.37

Delhi Legislative Assembly By-election, 2004: Rajouri Garden^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ramesh Lamba	19,193	49.95	-19.08
	BJP	Ramesh Khanna	15,544	40.46	+14.21
	BSP	Virender Kumar	2,776	7.23
	IJP	Jatinder Singh	320	0.83	+0.53
	Independent	Sandeep	141	0.37
style="background-color: Template:Indian National Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Indian National Labour Party\|Template:Indian National Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Chandra Singh Mehrat	130	0.34	-0.06
	Independent	Lalit Babu	99	0.26
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party\|Template:Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party/meta/shortname]]	Gopi Chand	66	0.17
	Independent	Gurunam Singh	66	0.17
	Independent	Ravi Kumar	66	0.17
	Independent	Ashwani Kumar Khanna	21	0.05
Majority			3,649	9.49	-33.29
Turnout			38,422	37.95	-19.96
	INC hold		Swing	-19.08

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2003: Rajouri Garden^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajay Maken	39,515	69.03	+3.30
	BJP	Sarabjit Singh	15,028	26.25	-4.30
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Samajwadi Party (United)/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Rashtriya Samajwadi Party (United)\|Template:Rashtriya Samajwadi Party (United)/meta/shortname]]	Sarup Singh Tur	656	1.15
	Independent	Moti Lal Bairwa	605	1.06
	SHS	Subhash Chander	428	0.75
style="background-color: Template:Indian National Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Indian National Labour Party\|Template:Indian National Labour Party/meta/shortname]]	Chandra Singh Mehrat	231	0.40
	Independent	Ved Prakash	224	0.39
style="background-color: Template:Akhand Bharti/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Akhand Bharti\|Template:Akhand Bharti/meta/shortname]]	Dr Rajesh Kumar Bhatia	182	0.32
	IJP	Kamal Kumar Khanna	171	0.30
	Independent	Teck Chand Malhotra Alias Titoo	153	0.27
	Independent	Arun Vij	49	0.09
Majority			24,487	42.78	+17.60
Turnout			57,242	57.91	+7.29
	INC hold		Swing	+3.30

Elections in the 1990s[edit | edit source]

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1998: Rajouri Garden^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajay Maken	36,060	65.73	+14.78
	BJP	Shashi Prabha Arya	16,763	30.55	-13.96
	BSP	Shakuntla	1,094	1.99
	Independent	Subhash Bairwa	367	0.67
	Independent	Jagdish Prasad Nainawat	233	0.42
	Independent	Sahib Singh	187	0.34
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" \|	[[Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party\|Template:Rashtriya Aikta Manch Party/meta/shortname]]	Gopi Chand Tyagi	70	0.13
	Independent	Neeraj Malik	56	0.10
	Independent	Tara Chand	32	0.06	+0.03
Majority			19,297	25.18	+18.74
Turnout			54,862	50.62	-15.63
	INC hold		Swing	+14.78

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1993: Rajouri Garden^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Ajay Maken	28,075	50.95
	BJP	Manohar Lal Kumar	24,524	44.51
	JD	Jai Prakash Tyagi	1,454	2.64
	Independent	Gurcharan Singh	203	0.37
	Independent	Narinder	144	0.26
	Independent	Brij Lal	117	0.21
	Independent	Satender	99	0.18
	Independent	Manmohan	96	0.17
	Independent	Kanihiya Lal	74	0.13
	Independent	Anokha Singh	73	0.13
	Independent	Kherati Lal	58	0.11
	Independent	Shankar Lal Maurya	39	0.07
	Independent	Rattan Singh Virk	34	0.06
	Independent	S N Gupta	34	0.06
	Independent	Hari Parshad	24	0.04
	Independent	Darshan Singh	19	0.03
	Independent	Sham Sunder	19	0.03
	Independent	Tara Chand	14	0.03
Majority			3,551	6.44
Turnout			55,100	66.25
	INC win (new seat)

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 549.
↑ 2017 Rajouri Garden By-election - Election Commission of India
↑ 2008 Election Commission of India
↑ 2004 Assembly Bye Election results, Election Commission of India
↑ 2003 Election Commission of India
↑ 1998 Election Commission of India
↑ 1993 Election Commission of India

[2] By-election held due to election of Ajay Maken as MP for New Delhi

[3] By-poll

[eci1-1] "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 549.

[4] 2017 Rajouri Garden By-election - Election Commission of India

[5] 2008 Election Commission of India

[6] 2004 Assembly Bye Election results, Election Commission of India

[7] 2003 Election Commission of India

[8] 1998 Election Commission of India

[9] 1993 Election Commission of India

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