Chandni Chowk Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

Chandni Chowk General(Lok Sabha) Election 2014 Summary

Chandni Chowk or Old Delhi has emerged as one of the key battlegrounds. The BJP's candidate Dr. Harsh Vardhan, the Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Ashutosh and Congress' candidate Kapil Sibal contested for the Lok Sabha seat from the Chandni Chowk constituency but it was <> who emerged out as the clear winner.

BJP's candidate Dr. Harsh Vardhan won the election by a resounding 437938 votes, defeating by a margin of 136320 votes. In third place, Congress' Kapil Sibal won a total of 176206 votes.

Ruling MP and the Indian National Congress' candidate Kapil Sibal has had a strong hold in Chandni Chowk, retaining the constituency for two terms in a row now. Sibal had come out as a clear winner in the 2009 elections sweeping 59.67% votes of the constituency, thereby winning with the margin of 2,00,710 votes where a total of 7,80,445 votes were cast.

The BJP candidate Vijendar Gupta had come at a far second by securing 2,65,003 votes which made only 33.96% of the total votes and the BSP's Mohammad Mustaqeem managed only 26,486 of the total votes cast comprising only 3.39% of the total in the 2009 elections.

The basic issues encompassing all the ten assembly constituencies which come under the Lok Sabha seat of Chandni Chowk are largely the same. The constituency faces the issues of illegal encroachment, never ending congestion, civic amenities like poor infrastructure, unstable supply of water and sealing which were also the dominating factors in the campaigning agendas for almost all the parties.

Out of the seven parliamentary constituencies which represent the National Capital Territory of Delhi, one of the most prominent is Chandni Chowk. The Chandni Chowk Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 1) has a total of 1,413,535 electorates out of which 629,990 are females and 783,545 are males according to Election Commission of India 2009 reports. Being one of the oldest and earliest constituencies in the country, it has been represented from the very beginning, by most prominent political leaders such as Radha Raman of the Indian National Congress, Vijay Goel, Union Minister of the UPA regime, Kapil Sibal presently. Hence, the Chandni Chowk seat plays a nationally important role, so far as the political discourse in India is concerned.

Not only is the constituency very densely populated, but it also covers expansive regions spanning from Lahori Darwaza to Chowk Kotwali, covering Chandni Chowk and ending in Fatehpuri Masjid. Finding popular references in the times of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in the 17^th century, this parliamentary constituency which lies in the historically important Shahjahanabad area, has at present 10 assembly segments which make up the Chandni Chowk parliamentary seat. This decision was finalized by the 2008 Order of the Delimitation Commission of India which was instituted in 2002.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Chandni Chowk Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Chandni Chowk constituency is Dr. Harsh Vardhan of BJP.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	1	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	M	BJP	436468	Ashutosh	M	AAP	300515
2009	1	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Sibal,Shri Kapil	M	INC	465713	Vijender Gupta	M	BJP	265003
2004	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Kapil Sibal	M	INC	127396	Smriti Z. Iraani	M	BJP	47981
1999	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Vijay Goel	M	BJP	74001	Jai Prakash Aggarwal	M	INC	72006
1998	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Vijay Goel	M	BJP	79546	Jai Parkash Agarwal	M	INC	75197
1996	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Jai Parkash Agarwal	M	INC	92634	J.K. Jain	M	BJP	70390
1991	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Tara Chand Khandelwal	M	BJP	80898	Jai Prakash Aggrawal S/O Ram Charan	M	INC	78124
1989	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Jai Prakash Aggarwal	M	INC	89891	Satish Chander Khandelwal	M	BJP	80460
1984	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Jai Parkash Agarwal	M	INC	122069	Sikander Bakht	M	BJP	74993
1980	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Bhiku Ram Jain	M	INC(I)	100624	Sikander Bakht	M	JNP	83389
1977	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Sikander Bakht	M	BLD	185850	Subhadra Joshi	M	INC	69861
1971	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Subhadra Joshi	M	INC	88907	Ram Gopal Shalwale	M	BJS	43684
1967	5	Chandni Chowk	GEN	R. Gopal	M	BJS	58928	Sham Nath	M	INC	41778
1962	2	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Sham Nath	M	INC	69508	Amrit Lal Jindal	M	JS	40560
1957	2	Chandni Chowk	GEN	Radha Raman	M	INC	50758	Basant Rao	M	BJS	36361

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Chandni Chowk Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Adarsh Nagar	Wazirpur	Chandni Chowk
Shalimar Bagh	Model Town	Matia Mahal
Shakur Basti	Sadar Bazar	Ballimaran
Tri Nagar