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{{Short description|1993 legislative assembly elections in Delhi}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1993 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1952 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
| previous_year = 1952
| election_date = 1993
| next_election = 1998 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1998
| seats_for_election= All 70 seats to the [[Delhi Legislative Assembly]]
| majority_seats = 36
| opinion_polls =
| turnout = 61.75%

| image2 =
| leader2 =
| party2 = Indian National Congress
| leader_since2 =
| leaders_seat2 =
| last_election2 =
| seats_before2 =
| seats2 = 14
| seat_change2 =
| popular_vote2 =
| percentage2 = 34.48%
| swing2 =

| image1 = [[File:Madan_Lal_Khurana.jpg|100px]]
| leader1 = [[Madan Lal Khurana]]
| party1 = Bharatiya Janata Party
| leader_since1 =
| leaders_seat1 =
| last_election1 =
| seats_before1 =
| seats1 = 49
| seat_change1 =
| popular_vote1 =
| percentage1 = 47.82%
| swing1 =

| title = Chief Minister
| posttitle = [[Chief Minister of Delhi|Chief Minister]]
| before_election =
| before_party =
| after_election = [[Madan Lal Khurana]]
| after_party = Bharatiya Janata Party
}}

'''Legislative Assembly elections''' were held in [[Delhi]] in 1993. The result was a victory for the [[Bhartiya Janata Party]], which won 49 of the 70 seats in the [[Delhi Legislative Assembly|Assembly]].<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/archive/se98/background/U05/DL-LA93.htm General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi, 1993] ECI</ref>

==State Reorganization==
First Legislative Assembly elections in Delhi were held in [[1952 Delhi Legislative Assembly election|1952]]. But under [[States Reorganisation Act, 1956]], Delhi was made a [[Union Territory]] under the direct administration of the President of India and the [[Delhi Legislative Assembly]] was abolished simultaneously.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1955_7/42/reorganisation_of_statesthe_approach_and_arrangements.pdf | title=Reorganisation of States, 1955 | publisher=The Economic Weekly | date=15 October 1955 | accessdate=25 July 2015}}</ref> So the next legislative assembly elections in Delhi were held in 1993, when Union Territory of Delhi was formally declared as [[National Capital Territory of Delhi]] by the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the [[Constitution of India|Indian constitution]].<ref name=" Sixty-ninth amendment ">{{cite news|title=Sixty-ninth amendment|publisher=[[Delhi Assembly]] official website|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend69.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821020032/http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend69.htm#|archive-date=21 August 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Results==
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
!Party
!Votes
!%
!Seats
|-
|align=left|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]|| ||47.82||49
|-
|align=left|[[Indian National Congress]]|| ||34.48||14
|-
|align=left|[[Janata Dal]]|| ||12.65||4
|-
|align=left|[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]|| ||1.88||0
|-
|align=left|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|Communist Party (Marxist)]]|| ||0.38||0
|-
|align=left|[[Communist Party of India|Communist Party]]|| ||0.21||0
|-
|align=left|[[Janata Party]]|| ||0.20||0
|-
|align=left|[[Shiv Sena]]|| ||0.14||0
|-
|align=left|[[All India Forward Bloc]]|| ||0.03||0
|-
|align=left|Unrecognised parties|| ||1.29||0
|-
|align=left|Independents|| ||5.92||3
|-
|align=left|Invalid/blank votes||60,902||–||–
|-
|align=left|'''Total'''||'''3,612,713'''||'''100'''||'''70'''
|-
|align=left|Registered voters/turnout||5,850,545||61.75||–
|-
|align=left colspan=4|Source: [http://eci.nic.in/archive/se98/background/U05/DL-LA93.htm ECI]
|}

==See also==

* [[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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{{Delhi elections}}

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