New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency explained

New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 7 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the Indian National Capital Territory of Delhi. This constituency came into existence in 1951. It is the oldest constituency of Delhi that currently exists.

Assembly segments

Following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies, in 2008, it comprises the following Delhi Vidhan Sabha segments:^[1]

	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading
23	Karol Bagh (SC)	Central Delhi	Vishesh Ravi			BJP
24	Patel Nagar (SC)	New Delhi	Vacant			BJP
25	Moti Nagar	West Delhi	Shiv Charan Goel			BJP
38	Delhi Cantt	New Delhi	Virender Singh Kadian
39	Rajinder Nagar		Durgesh Pathak			BJP
40	New Delhi		Arvind Kejriwal
42	Kasturba Nagar	South East Delhi	Madan Lal			BJP
43	Malviya Nagar	South Delhi	Somnath Bharti			BJP
44	R K Puram	New Delhi	Pramila Tokas
50	Greater Kailash		Saurabh Bhardwaj			BJP

From 1993–2008, it comprised the following Delhi Vidhan Sabha segments:^[2]

1. Sarojini Nagar (Polling stations 1-93)
2. Gole Market (Polling stations 1-100)
3. Minto Road (Polling stations 1-135)
4. Kasturba Nagar (Polling stations 1-21 and 23-114)
5. Jangpura
6. Matia Mahal (Polling stations 84-108)

From 1966–93, New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency comprised the following Delhi Metropolitan Council segments:

1. Sarojini Nagar
2. Laxmibai Nagar
3. Gole Market
4. Bara Khamba
5. Minto Road
6. Jangpura
7. Kasturba Nagar
8. Lajpat Nagar

Members of Parliament

The New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency was created in 1952. The list of Member of Parliament (MP) is as follows:^[3]

Year	Member	Party
1952	Sucheta Kripalani
1957
1961^	Balraj Madhok
1962	Mehr Chand Khanna
1967	Manohar Lal Sondhi
1971	Mukul Banerji
1977	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1980
1984	Krishan Chandra Pant
1989	Lal Krishna Advani
1991
1992^	Rajesh Khanna
1996	Jagmohan Malhotra
1998
1999
2004	Ajay Maken
2009
2014	Meenakashi Lekhi
2019
	Bansuri Swaraj

^By-Poll

Election results

10th Lok Sabha:

10th Lok Sabha

1992 By Election

• The bye-poll was held because Advani retained Gandhinagar seat which he had won in 1991, and vacated New Delhi seat.

2nd Lok Sabha:

• Sucheta Kripalani (Congress)
  • Sucheta Kripalani resigned her Lok Sabha seat in 1960 and became a minister in Uttar Pradesh.

2nd Lok Sabha: 1961 By Election

1st Lok Sabha:

See also

• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008. The Election Commission of India. 556.
2. Web site: List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies, General Election to the Lok Sabha, 2004. Government of Delhi website. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111006180007/http://www.delhi.gov.in/DoIT/DoIT_CEO/parliamentary.pdf. 2011-10-06.
3. Election Commission of India Web site: Constituencywise-All Candidates . 2015-05-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150604083656/http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU054.htm?ac=4 . 2015-06-04 .