1991 Indian general election in Delhi

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The 1991 Indian general election in Delhi was held to elect representatives of the 7 seats of the NCT of Delhi in the Lok Sabha.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 5 of the 7 seats in Delhi, with its opposition, the Indian National Congress winning 2 seats.

Parties and alliances

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No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|1.	Bharatiya Janata Party			L. K. Advani	7

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No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
! style="text-align:center; background:Template:Party color;color:white"|1.	Indian National Congress			P. V. Narasimha Rao	7

Results

Results by Party/Alliance

Party Name				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
Template:Party color cell	BJP			11,71,156	40.21	Template:Increase 14.02	7	5	Template:Increase 1
Template:Party color cell	INC			11,52,627	39.57	Template:Decrease 3.84	7	2	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	JD			4,13,933	14.21	Template:Decrease 2.07	7	0	Template:Decrease 1
Template:Party color cell	JP			35,902	1.23	Template:Steady	7	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	BSP			26,865	0.92	Template:Decrease 2.73	7	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	SAD(M)			9,918	0.34	Template:Steady	1	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	CPI			2,800	0.10	Template:Steady	1	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	Others			24,928	0.85	Template:Steady	66	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	IND			74,734	2.57	Template:Increase 6.81	399	0	Template:Steady
Total				29,12,863	100%	-	502	7	-

List of elected MPs

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	New Delhi	Lal Krishan Advani	Template:Party color cell	BJP	93,662	43.40	Rajesh Khanna	Template:Party color cell	INC	92,073	42.66	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,589	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|0.74
2	South Delhi	Madan Lal Khurana	Template:Party color cell	BJP	208,728	49.95	Romesh Bhandari	Template:Party color cell	INC	158,005	37.81	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|50,723	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|12.14
3	Outer Delhi	Sajjan Kumar	Template:Party color cell	INC	346,259	45.36	Sahib Singh Verma	Template:Party color cell	BJP	259,468	33.99	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|86,791	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|11.37
4	East Delhi	B. L. Sharma 'Prem'	Template:Party color cell	BJP	303,141	40.27	H. K. L. Bhagat	Template:Party color cell	INC	241,316	32.05	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|61,825	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|8.22
5	Chandni Chowk	Tara Chand Khandelwal	Template:Party color cell	BJP	80,898	35.70	Jai Prakash Aggarwal	Template:Party color cell	INC	78,124	34.48	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|2,774	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1.22
6	Delhi Sadar	Jagdish Tytler	Template:Party color cell	INC	137,453	48.57	Vijay Kumar Malhotra	Template:Party color cell	BJP	123,362	43.59	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|14,091	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|4.98
7	Karol Bagh (SC)	Kalka Dass	Template:Party color cell	BJP	101,897	40.23	Krishna Tirath	Template:Party color cell	INC	99,397	39.24	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|2,500	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|0.99

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Delhi

SI No.	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	Jagdish Tytler	Delhi Sadar	Minister of State (Independent Charge)	Surface Transport	21 June 1991	15 September 1995	Template:Party name with color
				Coal	13 September 1995	16 May 1996

References

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