Delhi Assembly Election Results 1972

The Delhi Legislative Assembly witnessed its 2nd elections in 1972. A total of 6,81,324 votes were polled. The total numberof valid votes was 14,03,764. The most number of voters were in the Ramakrishnapuram constituency. The participating political parties were either national, state, registered unrecognized parties or independent candidates and a total of 56 MLAs from 56 constituencies were elected. Out of these, 49 were general constituencies and 7 were from the Scheduled Castes.

The INC bagged 44 seats, again being in the majority. The SOP and SWA did not manage getting a single seat in the 1972 elections. 3 women candidates were elected as MLAs. However, since in this period, Delhi ceased to exist as a state and was under President's rule, it had no Chief Minister. Delhi became a union territory which was being centrally administered. Delhi witnessed considerable growth and development during this period.

See Also: Delhi Assembly Election Results 2013

Delhi Legislative Assembly Election in 1972 Party Wise

Party	Seats
All India Bhartiya Jan Sangh (BJS)	5
Indian National Congress (Organisation) (NCO)	2
Indian National Congress (INC)	44
Communist Party of India (CPI)	3
Independent (IND)	2
Total	56

Delhi Assembly Election Results 1972...

List of Successful Candidates in Delhi Assembly Election in 1972

A. C. No.	Assembly Constituency Name	Category	Winner Candidates Name	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner-UP	Gender	Party	Votes
1	Sarojini Nagar	GEN	P. N. Singh	M	INC	10441	Ram Bhaj	M	BJS	9325
2	Laxmibai Nagar	GEN	Arjun Das	M	INC	10878	Kidar Nath Sachdeva	M	BJS	6726
3	Gole Market	GEN	Asoke Chatterjee	M	INC	7909	Mohinder Pal Chawla	M	BJS	4743
4	Prithvi Raj Road	GEN	Pushpa Devi Gupta	F	INC	9105	Raj Wadhwa	M	BJS	5982
5	Barakhamba	GEN	A. L. Ralia Ram	M	INC	10271	Om Prakash Sharma	M	BJS	4460
6	Minto Road	GEN	Surinder Saini	M	INC	7536	Vinod Bhushan Srivastva	M	BJS	3082
7	Jangpura	GEN	Jag Parvesh Chandra	M	INC	10507	Inder Mohan Sehgal	M	BJS	7338
8	Kasturba Nagar	(SC)	C. L. Balmiki	M	INC	12578	Sanwal Das	M	BJS	8183
9	Lajpat Nagar	GEN	Archna	F	INC	17908	Ram Lal Verma	M	BJS	16781
10	Kalkaji	GEN	V. P. Singh	M	INC	24570	S. P. Bannerji	M	BJS	14887
11	R.K. Puram	GEN	Jagdish Chander	M	INC	31395	Onkar Singh	M	BJS	22469
12	Delhi Cantt	GEN	Brij Lal Dua	M	INC	11316	Dev Raj Sood	M	BJS	3807
13	Rajinder Nagar	GEN	Thakur Das	M	INC	16968	Ram Nath Vij	M	BJS	16073
14	Ashok Nagar	GEN	Rajander Kumar Tanwar	M	INC	16948	Lok Vir Singh	M	BJS	12405
15	Subhash Nagar	GEN	Manmohan Singh	M	INC	23283	Devki Nandan Shastri	M	BJS	19195
16	Moti Nagar	GEN	K. C. Malik	M	INC	19410	Tilak Raj Verma	M	BJS	17532
17	Shakur Basti	GEN	Sri Chand	M	CPI	27630	Banarsi Das	M	BJS	18343
18	Badli	(SC)	Mool Chand	M	INC	17194	Roshan Lal	M	BJS	8817
19	Narela	GEN	Heera Singh	M	INC	12744	Babu Ram Tyagi	M	BJS	8405
20	Bawana	GEN	Tek Chand	M	IND	11828	Ram Singh	M	INC	6870
21	Nangloi	GEN	Bharat Singh	M	INC	18633	Sunder Singh	M	BJS	8917
22	Najafgarh	GEN	Mukam Singh	M	INC	7318	Suraj Bhan	M	IND	7266
23	Palam	GEN	Mange Ram	M	INC	13007	Ram Dhan	M	BJS	4906
24	Tughlakabad	(SC)	Prem Singh	M	INC	16407	Kalka Dass	M	BJS	15268
25	Geeta Colony	GEN	Brij Lal Goswami	M	INC	15418	Amar Chand Shnbh	M	BJS	13137
26	Gandhi Nagar	GEN	Inder Singh Azad	M	INC	21646	Som Nath	M	BJS	17569
27	Shahdara	GEN	Ram Narain	M	INC	17373	Parmeshwari Dass	M	BJS	12474
28	Ghonda	GEN	Hargain Singh	M	INC	28315	Devki Nandan Sharma	M	BJS	17534
29	Vijay Nagar	GEN	B.D. Wadhwa	M	INC	20532	Sikander Lal	M	BJS	12386
30	Kamla Nagar	GEN	Purushotam Lal Goel	M	INC	10457	Prem Chand Gupta	M	BJS	8734
31	Timarpur	GEN	Amar Nath Malhotra	M	INC	14456	Uttam Prakash Bansal	M	BJS	11165
32	Kashmere Gate	GEN	Om Prakash Behl	M	INC	9791	Bhagwant Kishore	M	BJS	4618
33	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Rama Shanker	M	INC	10055	Janardhan Gupta	M	BJS	8651
34	Darya Ganj	GEN	Dalit Kumar Tandan	M	BJS	8063	Du Choudhary	M	INC	7951
35	Dariba	GEN	Mehtab Chand Jain	M	INC	9603	Kishan Lal	M	BJS	8849
36	Matia Mahal	GEN	Sikander Bakht	M	NCO	6495	Mohammed Zafar Ali	M	IND	5924
37	Chawri Bazar	GEN	Anwar Ali Dhehlvi	M	BJS	10625	Chander Bhan Khandelwal	M	INC	9782
38	Ballimaran	GEN	Mohd. Ahmed	M	IND	6207	Sarla Sharma	M	CPI	5755
39	Ajmeri Gate	GEN	Mirza Siddiq Ali	M	INC	6361	Shagiqur Rahmanan	M	IND	5629
40	Kalan Masjid	GEN	Rajesh Sharma	M	NCO	4140	Devkinandna Sharma	M	INC	3911
41	Pahar Ganj	GEN	Madan Lal Khurana	M	BJS	11692	Amar Nath	M	INC	10881
42	Ram Nagar	GEN	Satya Prakash	M	INC	13387	Govind Ram Verma	M	BJS	9961
43	Basti Julahan	(SC)	Prabhu Dayal	M	INC	9642	Prabhati Lal	M	BJS	8646
44	Qasabpura	GEN	Roshan Lal	M	INC	8042	Ram Narain Jain	M	BJS	7312
45	Deputy Ganj	GEN	Shyam Chanran Gupta	M	BJS	12381	Bhiku Ram Jain	M	INC	9923
46	Pratap Nagar	GEN	Ved Parkash	M	INC	10304	Ram Kishan Bhardwaj	M	BJS	7818
47	Arya Pura	GEN	Ram Chander Sharma	M	CPI	10697	Hem Raj Malhotra	M	BJS	8172
48	Shakti Nagar	GEN	Radhey Lal	M	INC	10629	Satya Pal Chug	M	BJS	9071
49	Sarai Rohilla	GEN	Iqbal Krishna Trehan	M	INC	21693	Shyam Sunder Dhingra	M	BJS	9437
50	Kishan Ganj	GEN	B.D. Joshit	M	CPI	10101	Jawahar Lal Mehra	M	BJS	8472
51	Motia Khan	GEN	Bansilal Chauhan	M	INC	7636	Banarsi Dass	M	BJS	7406
52	Tibbia College	GEN	R. P. Mittal	M	INC	8623	Jitendra Gupta	M	BJS	7841
53	Rehgarpura	(SC)	Sunder Wati N Parbhaker	F	INC	10283	Shiv Narain Sarunia	M	BJS	8457
54	Dev Nagar	(SC)	Moti Lal Bokalia	M	INC	8513	Babu Lal	M	RPI	5636
55	Patel Nagar	GEN	Vijay Kumar Malhotra	M	BJS	12827	Savita Behan	F	INC	10928
56	Anand Parbat	(SC)	Krishan Swarup	M	INC	19397	Kharak Singh	M	BJS	7485