2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

State assembly elections held in 2008

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2008 Delhi state assembly elections

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All 70 to the Delhi Legislative Assembly
36 seats needed for a majority
Turnout| 57.60% (4.18%)
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Leader  | Sheila Dikshit | Vijay Kumar Malhotra | Mayawati
Party  | INC | BJP | BSP
Leader's seat  | New Delhi | Greater Kailash | Not Contested
Seats before  | 47  | 20  | 0
Seats won  | 43 | 23  | 2
Seat change  |  4  |  3  |  2
Popular vote  | 2,489,816 | 2,244,629  | 867,672
Percentage  | 40.31% | 36.34%  | 14.05%
Swing  |  7.82%  |  1.12%  |  8.28%

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Map of Delhi showing results of the 2008 Vidhan Sabha election

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| Chief Minister before election

Sheila Dikshit
INC

| Elected Chief Minister

Sheila Dikshit
INC

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Legislative Assembly elections were held in Delhi on 8 February 2020 to elect 70 members of the Delhi Legislative Assembly.The voter turnout for the election was 57.60% an increase by 4.18% than the previous election in 2003. The Indian National Congress won the election comfortably winning 43 of the 70 seats, while the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party managed to win 23 seats. Sheila Dikshit of the Indian National Congress was sworn in as the Chief Minister for the third consecutive time.

## Results

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Party  | Seats
Contested  | Seats
won  | Seats
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Indian National Congress | 70  | 43  | \- 4  | 40.31
Bharatiya Janata Party | 70  | 23  | \+ 3  | 36.34
Bahujan Samaj Party | 70  | 2  | \+ 2  | 14.05
Lok Janshakti Party | 41  | 1  | +1  | 1.35
Independent |  | 1  |  | 3.92
Total  |  | 70  |  | 95.97

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### Results by districts

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District  | Seats  | INC | BJP | Others

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North Delhi | 8  | 6  | 2  | 0
Central Delhi | 7  | 4  | 2  | 1
North West Delhi | 7  | 3  | 4  | 0
West Delhi | 7  | 3  | 4  | 0
New Delhi | 6  | 4  | 2  | 0
South West Delhi | 7  | 4  | 2  | 1
South East Delhi | 7  | 4  | 2  | 1
South Delhi | 5  | 5  | 0  | 0
East Delhi | 6  | 4  | 2  | 0
Shahdara | 5  | 4  | 1  | 0
North East Delhi | 5  | 2  | 2  | 1
Total  | 70  | 43  | 23  | 4

### Results by constituency

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Indian National Congress

Bharatiya Janta Party

Bahujan Samaj Party

Lok Jan Shakti Party

Rashtriya Janata Dal

Independent

Assembly Constituency  | Turnout
(%)  | Winner  | Runner Up  | Margin

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#  | Name  | Candidate  | Party  | Votes  | % | Candidate  | Party  | Votes  | %
North Delhi District
1  | Narela | 56.8  | Jaswant Singh  |  | INC  | 34,662  | 31.66  | Sharad Chauhan |  | BSP  | 33,830  | 30.90  | 832
Central Delhi District
2  | Burari | 55.9  | Shri Krishan  |  | BJP  | 32,006  | 30.10  | Deepak Tyagi  |  | INC  | 27,016  | 25.40  | 4,990
3  | Timarpur | 59.3  | Surinder Pal Singh  |  | INC  | 39,997  | 44.14  | Surya Prakash Khatri  |  | BJP  | 37,584  | 41.48  | 2,413
North Delhi District
4  | Adarsh Nagar | 59.12  | Mangat Ram Singhal |  | INC  | 36,445  | 44.84  | Ravinder Singh  |  | BJP  | 31,993  | 39.29  | 4,512
5  | Badli | 57.1  | Devender Yadav |  | INC  | 39,215  | 39.86  | Ajesh Yadav |  | BSP  | 25,611  | 26.03  | 13,604
North West Delhi District
6  | Rithala | 63.4  | Kulwant Rana  |  | BJP  | 64,474  | 55.86  | Shambhu Dayal Sharma  |  | INC  | 38,128  | 32.86  | 26,346
North Delhi District
7  | Bawana(SC) | 52.6  | Surender Kumar  |  | INC  | 60,544  | 48.33  | Chand Ram  |  | BJP  | 43,402  | 34.65  | 17,142
North West Delhi District
8  | Mundka | 55  | Manoj Kumar  |  | BJP  | 47,355  | 45.83  | Prem Chander Kaushik  |  | INC  | 32,458  | 31.41  | 14,897
9  | Kirari | 57.9  | Anil Jha Vats |  | BJP  | 30,005  | 32.73  | Pushpraj  |  | NCP  | 20,481  | 22.34  | 9,524
10  | Sultanpur Majra(SC) | 61.9  | Jai Kishan  |  | INC  | 39,542  | 48.19  | Nand Ram Bagri  |  | AAP  | 20,867  | 25.73  | 18,675
West Delhi District
11  | Nangloi Jat | 55.1  | Bijender Singh  |  | INC  | 48,009  | 50.65  | Raj Singh  |  | BJP  | 30,449  | 32.12  | 17,650
North West Delhi District
12  | Mangol Puri(SC) | 64.7  | Raj Kumar Chauhan |  | INC  | 50,448  | 54.41  | Yogesh Aatray  |  | BJP  | 20,585  | 22.20  | 29,863
North Delhi District
13  | Rohini | 58.7  | Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal |  | BJP  | 56,793  | 62.56  | Vijender Jindal  |  | INC  | 30,019  | 33.66  | 26,774
North West Delhi District
14  | Shalimar Bagh | 58.59  | Ravinder Nath Bansal  |  | BJP  | 49,976  | 57.63  | Ram Kailash Gupta  |  | INC  | 30,044  | 34.35  | 19,932
North Delhi District
15  | Shakur Basti | 58.27  | Shyam Lal Garg  |  | BJP  | 40,444  | 50.20  | S.C.Vats |  | INC  | 36,444  | 45.23  | 4,000
North West Delhi District
16  | Tri Nagar | 63.37  | Anil Bharadwaj  |  | INC  | 41,891  | 46.26  | Nand Kishore Garg |  | BJP  | 39,222  | 44.09  | 1,969
North Delhi District
17  | Wazirpur | 56.69  | Hari Shanker Gupta  |  | INC  | 39,977  | 45.29  | Mange Ram Garg  |  | BJP  | 36,837  | 41.09  | 3,140
18  | Model Town | 58.53  | Kanwar Karan Singh  |  | INC  | 39,935  | 46.37  | Bhola Nath Vij  |  | BJP  | 36,936  | 43.86  | 2,997
Central Delhi District
19  | Sadar Bazar | 60.1  | Rajesh Jain |  | INC  | 47,508  | 53.44  | Jai Parkash  |  | BJP  | 33,419  | 37.59  | 14,089
20  | Chandni Chowk | 57.2  | Parlad Singh Sawhney |  | INC  | 28,207  | 45.61  | Praveen Khandelwal  |  | BJP  | 20,188  | 32.64  | 8,019
21  | Matia Mahal | 56.3  | Shoaib Iqbal |  | LJP  | 25,474  | 39.56  | Mehmood Zia  |  | INC  | 17,870  | 27.75  | 7,807
22  | Ballimaran | 59.6  | Haroon Yusuf |  | INC  | 34,660  | 42.08  | Moti Lal Sodhi  |  | BJP  | 28,423  | 34.51  | 6,237
23  | Karol Bagh(SC) | 59.71  | Surender Pal Ratawal |  | BJP  | 38,746  | 45.71  | Madan Khorwal  |  | INC  | 35,338  | 41.69  | 3,408
New Delhi District
24  | Patel Nagar(SC) | 56.5  | Rajesh Lilothia |  | INC  | 44,022  | 50.43  | Anita Arya |  | BJP  | 34,516  | 39.54  | 9,506
West Delhi District
25  | Moti Nagar | 61.6  | Subhash Sachdeva |  | BJP  | 46,616  | 54.49  | Anjali Rai  |  | INC  | 31,619  | 36.96  | 14,997
26  | Madipur(SC) | 58.4  | Mala Ram Gangwal  |  | INC  | 40,698  | 48.75  | Kailash Sankla  |  | BJP  | 32,166  | 38.53  | 8,532
27  | Rajouri Garden | 62  | Dyanand Chandila |  | INC  | 31,130  | 37.58  | Avtar Singh Hit  |  | SAD(A)  | 31,084  | 37.53  | 54
28  | Hari Nagar | 57.2  | Harsharan Singh Balli |  | BJP  | 51,364  | 62.67  | Ramesh Lamba  |  | INC  | 22,606  | 27.58  | 28,758
29  | Tilak Nagar | 53.5  | O P Babbar  |  | BJP  | 38,320  | 52.33  | Anita Babbar  |  | INC  | 26,202  | 35.78  | 12,118
30  | Janakpuri | 61.2  | Jagdish Mukhi |  | BJP  | 50,655  | 57.15  | Deepak Arora  |  | INC  | 33,203  | 37.46  | 17,458
South West Delhi District
31  | Vikaspuri | 55.6  | Nand Kishore  |  | INC  | 47,819  | 34.96  | Krishan Gahlot  |  | BJP  | 46,876  | 34.27  | 943
32  | Uttam Nagar | 62.4  | Mukesh Sharma  |  | INC  | 46,765  | 46.03  | Pawan Sharma  |  | BJP  | 39,582  | 38.96  | 7,183
33  | Dwarka | 62.4  | Mahabal Mishra |  | INC  | 43,608  | 52.33  | Pradyuman Rajput |  | BJP  | 29,627  | 35.56  | 13,981
34  | Matiala | 58.5  | Sumesh  |  | INC  | 52,411  | 40.14  | Kamal Jeet  |  | BJP  | 45,782  | 35.06  | 6,629
35  | Najafgarh | 59.1  | Bharat Singh  |  | IND  | 34,028  | 33.25  | Kanwal Singh Yadav  |  | INC  | 22,575  | 22.06  | 11,453
36  | Bijwasan | 59.1  | Sat Prakash Rana  |  | BJP  | 27,427  | 41.33  | Vijay Singh Lochav  |  | AAP  | 25,422  | 38.31  | 2,005
37  | Palam | 58.8  | Dharam Dev Solanki |  | BJP  | 40,712  | 44.12  | Mahender Yadav  |  | INC  | 28,119  | 30.47  | 12,593
New Delhi District
38  | Delhi Cantonment | 56.6  | Karan Singh Tanwar  |  | BJP  | 23,696  | 55.58  | Ashok Ahuja  |  | INC  | 16,435  | 38.55  | 7,261
39  | Rajinder Nagar | 52.2  | Rama Kant Goswami  |  | INC  | 29,394  | 40.78  | Asha Yogi  |  | BJP  | 23,988  | 33.28  | 5,406
40  | New Delhi | 56.22  | Sheila Dikshit |  | INC  | 39,778  | 52.20  | Vijay Jolly |  | BJP  | 25,796  | 39.85  | 13,982
South East Delhi District
41  | Jangpura | 59.6  | Tarvinder Singh Marwah  |  | INC  | 37,261  | 57  | Manjinder Singh Sirsa |  | BJP  | 23,310  | 35.96  | 13,956
42  | Kasturba Nagar | 53.2  | Neeraj Basoya  |  | INC  | 33,807  | 44.40  | Sushil Choudhary  |  | BJP  | 31,323  | 41.13  | 2,484
South Delhi District
43  | Malviya Nagar | 55.9  | Kiran Walia  |  | INC  | 31,823  | 39.43  | Ram Bhaj  |  | BJP  | 27,553  | 29.93  | 3,730
New Delhi District
44  | R K Puram | 52.7  | Barkha Singh  |  | INC  | 35,878  | 53.50  | Radhey Shyam Sharma  |  | BJP  | 26,561  | 39.60  | 9,317
South Delhi District
45  | Mehrauli | 45.9  | Yoganand Shastri  |  | INC  | 21,740  | 32.83  | Sher Singh Dagar  |  | BJP  | 20,632  | 31.15  | 1,108
46  | Chhatarpur | 56  | Balram Tanwar  |  | INC  | 32,406  | 37.22  | Brahm Singh Tanwar  |  | BJP  | 27,476  | 31.52  | 5,030
47  | Deoli(SC) | 56.4  | Arvinder Singh Lovely |  | INC  | 41,497  | 43.41  | Shri Lal  |  | BSP  | 24,869  | 26.02  | 16,628
48  | Ambedkar Nagar(SC) | 57.4  | Ch Prem Singh  |  | INC  | 30,467  | 43.19  | Suresh Chand  |  | BJP  | 26,630  | 36.34  | 4,837
South East Delhi District
49  | Sangam Vihar | 51.4  | Dr Shiv Charan Lal Gupta  |  | BJP  | 20,332  | 27.37  | Amod Kumar Kanth  |  | INC  | 16,743  | 22.54  | 3,589
New Delhi District
50  | Greater Kailash | 54.4  | Vijay Kumar Malhotra |  | BJP  | 42,206  | 52.94  | Jitender Kumar Kocher  |  | INC  | 30,987  | 38.87  | 11,219
South East Delhi District
51  | Kalkaji | 51.3  | Subhash Chopra |  | INC  | 38,360  | 51.91  | Jai Gopal Abrol  |  | BJP  | 24,971  | 33.79  | 13,389
52  | Tughlakabad | 55.5  | Ramesh Bidhuri |  | BJP  | 32,633  | 40.99  | Sahi Ram |  | BSP  | 24,399  | 30.65  | 8,234
53  | Badarpur | 56.6  | Ram Singh Netaji |  | BSP  | 53,416  | 47.30  | Ramvir Singh Bidhuri |  | INC  | 40,111  | 35.52  | 13,205
54  | Okhla | 49  | Parvez Hashmi  |  | INC  | 29,303  | 28.53  | Asif Muhammad Khan  |  | RJD  | 28,762  | 28  | 541
East Delhi District
55  | Trilokpuri(SC) | 59.9  | Sunil Kumar  |  | BJP  | 30,781  | 37.28  | Sunil Kumar  |  | INC  | 30,147  | 36.51  | 634
56  | Kondli(SC) | 59.6  | Amrish Singh Gautam  |  | INC  | 36,580  | 45.26  | Dushyant Kumar Gautam |  | BJP  | 21,594  | 26.72  | 14,986
57  | Patparganj | 54.5  | Anil Chaudhary |  | INC  | 36,984  | 42.40  | Nakul Bharadwaj  |  | BJP  | 36,336  | 41.64  | 663
58  | Laxmi Nagar | 56.5  | Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia |  | INC  | 54,352  | 59.58  | Murari Singh Panwar  |  | INC  | 31,855  | 34.99  | 22,397
Shahdara District
59  | Vishwas Nagar | 58.9  | Naseeb Singh |  | INC  | 48,805  | 51.09  | Om Prakash Sharma |  | BJP  | 39,176  | 41.01  | 9,629
East Delhi District
60  | Krishna Nagar | 61.6  | Harsh Vardhan |  | BJP  | 47,852  | 45.50  | Deepika Khullar  |  | INC  | 44,648  | 42.45  | 3,204
61  | Gandhi Nagar | 63.5  | Arvinder Singh Lovely |  | INC  | 59,795  | 64.25  | Kamal Kumar Jain  |  | BJP  | 27,870  | 29.94  | 31,923
Shahdara District
62  | Shahdara | 57.1  | Dr Narender Nath  |  | INC  | 39,194  | 44.89  | Jitender Singh Shunty |  | BJP  | 37,658  | 43.13  | 1,536
63  | Seemapuri(SC) | 62.3  | Veer Singh Dhingan |  | INC  | 43,864  | 49.13  | Chandra Pal Singh  |  | BJP  | 24,604  | 27.56  | 19,261
64  | Rohtas Nagar | 61.1  | Ram Babu Sharma  |  | INC  | 45,802  | 46.42  | Alok Kumar  |  | BJP  | 32,559  | 32.99  | 13,243
North East Delhi District
65  | Seelampur | 58  | Chaudhary Mateen Ahmed  |  | INC  | 47,820  | 54.65  | Sita Ram Gupta  |  | BJP  | 21,546  | 24.62  | 26,574
66  | Ghonda | 57.5  | Sahab Singh Chauhan |  | BJP  | 35,226  | 38.46  | Bheeshma Sharma  |  | INC  | 34,646  | 37.82  | 580
Shahdara District
67  | Babarpur | 59.7  | Naresh Gaur |  | BJP  | 31,954  | 35.1  | Hazi Dilashad Ali  |  | BSP  | 28,128  | 30.9  | 3,826
North East Delhi District
68  | Gokalpur(SC) | 61.6  | Surendra Kumar  |  | BSP  | 27,499  | 28.89  | Balzor Singh  |  | INC  | 24,442  | 25.68  | 3,057
69  | Mustafabad | 58  | Hasan Ahmed |  | INC  | 39,838  | 40.70  | Yogender Kumar Sharma  |  | BJP  | 38,859  | 39.69  | 979
70  | Karawal Nagar | 53.2  | Mohan Singh Bisht |  | BJP  | 43,980  | 42.80  | Satan Pal Dayma  |  | IND  | 22,852  | 22.24  | 21,128

## See also

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* First Legislative Assembly of Delhi
* Second Legislative Assembly of Delhi
* Third Legislative Assembly of Delhi
* Fourth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
* Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
* Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi

## References

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1. ^ "Seat sharing in Delhi Assembly Elections 2008". Riafy. 27 November 2013. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.

## External links

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* Legislative Assembly of Delhi, Official website
* Official Member's list, Legislative Assembly of Delhi

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