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New Delhi Lok Sabha Elections

New Delhi is one of the 7 Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi. Voting for Lok Sabha election in Delhi is being held in a single phase. Voting in New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency is in the sixth phase on May 12 and counting is on May 23.

After the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in 2008, New Delhi parliamentary constituency was divided into ten Vidhan Sabha segments namely Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar, Moti Nagar, Delhi Cantt, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, Kasturba Nagar, Malviya Nagar, R K Puram and Greater Kailash.

In 2014 Lok Sabha election, Bharatiya Janata Party's Meenakshi Lekhi had won the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 1,62,708 votes. Meenakshi Lekhi had bagged 4,53,350 votes as against Aam Aadmi Party's Ashish Khetan who bagged the second spot with 2,90,642 votes. Congress leader Ajay Maken was pushed to the third spot with 1,82,893 votes.

In the 2009 election, Ajay Makan had won the seat for the Congress for the second time in a row bagging 4,55,867 votes defeating Bharatiya Janata Party's Vijay Goel who secured 2,68,058 votes.

In the 2014 election in New Delhi, 79.11 per cent or 9,70,169 voters had exercised their franchise. Of the 29 contestants who were in the fray, 26 had lost their deposits.

For the 2019 election, Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded sitting MP Meenakshi Lekhi against Brijesh Goyal of Aam Aadmi Party and Ajay Maken of Congress.

Sushil Vadera from Bahujan Samaj Party, Nilanjan Banerjee from Bharat Lok Sewak Party, S Sada Chari Sai Baba Om Ji from Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha are among the several other candidates in the fray for the seat.

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Candidates	Party	Status	Votes
Meenakashi Lekhi	BJP	Won	504206
Ajay Makan	INC	Lost	247702
Brijesh Goyal	AAAP	Lost	150342
Nota	Nota	Lost	6601
Upendra	ANAP	Lost	1281
Sunil Kumar	PPI(D)	Lost	1272
Sunil	AKAP	Lost	1159
K Sreekrishna	JKNPP	Lost	920
Suresh Kumar	IND	Lost	721
Swadesh Kumar Ohri	ABP	Lost	641
Ajay Kumar Lal	IND	Lost	639
Harkrishan Das Nijhawan	IND	Lost	610
Virendra Singh Bharat	RRP	Lost	530
Jitendra Raut	ABMVP	Lost	405
Rajesh Satiya	SSRD	Lost	333
Ravinder Paul Sehgal	PPOI	Lost	323
Lal Ji	ARSP	Lost	307
Priyanka	IND	Lost	289
Umesh Chandra Gaur	RPI(A)	Lost	285
Raj Karan	CAP	Lost	275
Naveen Kumar	RSMP	Lost	257
Dilip Singh Kothari	IND	Lost	255
Sree Nivasan Ramamoorthy	IND	Lost	238
Ramesh	IND	Lost	200
Aashish S Saxena	IND	Lost	198
Nilanjan Banerjee	BLSP	Lost	194
Kripashankar C Pandey	IND	Lost	184
Raj Shekhar Gunti	PRISM	Lost	174

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