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Delhi · Assembly Constituency 50

GhondaAssembly by-election result, 1998

Bheeshm Sharma (INC) won Ghonda in the 1998 assembly by-election with 46.7% of the vote, beating B. D. Sharma (BJP) by 1,620 votes.

Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1993 election. In 1983, seat no. 50 was Karampura. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 2003. From 2008, seat no. 50 is Greater Kailash. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.

Winner

Bheeshm Sharma
INC 46.7%BJP 43.4%4 others 9.9%
Votes
23,171
46.7% share
Winning margin
1,620
3.3% of votes
Candidates
6

A closely fought contest. Bheeshm Sharma won with a 3.3% margin.

Seat history

All Candidates

6 candidates
#CandidatePartyVotes · %
1
Bheeshm Sharma
23,17146.7%
2
B. D. Sharma
21,55143.4%
3
Kumar Pal Rajora
2,0024.0%
4
Raj Kumar Bhati
1,5353.1%
5
Alla Mehar Ali
7521.5%
6
Ved Prakash
LSWP
LSWP
6331.3%

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A close contest, a two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
3.3%

winning margin, share of votes

How many parties were really in the race?

SEAT
Two or three

INC, BJP and BSP took 94% of the votes.

Parties in the race 2.44

How did the vote split?

SEAT
46.7%won by INC
INC 46.7%BJP 43.4%Others 9.9%

This seat number was reused from 2008. The district data on file describe the seat as contested from 2008, so they are not shown for earlier elections.

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Who has won Ghonda, 1993–2003

  1. 1993LAL BEHARI TIWARI (BJP), margin 17.6%
  2. 1998BHEESHM SHARMA (INC), margin 21.2%
  3. 2003BHEESHMA SHARMA (INC), margin 24.5%