Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
New Delhi #1GEN
Won
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
JP Janta PartyMargin
5,045 2.6 pp
votes
over C.M. Stephen (INCI)
The contest
Electors3,01,071
Votes polled1,96,112
Turnout65.1%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors1.56 L51.9% of electorate
Female electors1.45 L48.1% of electorate
Sex ratio
928females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | JP | 94,098 | 48.00% | |
| 2 | C.M. Stephen | INCI | 89,053 | 45.40% | |
| 3 | Rajender Puri | JPS | 4,682 | 2.40% | |
| 4 | Mukul Banerjee | INCU | 762 | 0.40% | |
| 5 | Yogeshwar Bhagwan Mahaprabhoo | IND | 664 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Rakesh Rani | IND | 575 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Johar I.S. | IND | 533 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | Maharaj Kumar | IND | 395 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | M.S.N. Dutta | AILP | 360 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Urmila Rani | IND | 307 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Swami Shivacharya | ABRRP | 294 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Joginder Singh Gandhi | IND | 244 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Ram Niwas Gupta | IND | 230 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Shankar Prasad Barua | IND | 225 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | K.K. Toofan | IND | 223 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Manohar Lal Sondhi | IND | 201 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Gurucharan Singh Malik | IND | 175 | 0.10% | |
| 18 | Harjit Singh Bedi | IND | 172 | 0.10% | |
| 19 | Jetha Nand Betab | IND | 169 | 0.10% | |
| 20 | Harkesh Singh | IND | 132 | 0.10% | |
| 21 | Karuna Nidhan Roy | IND | 105 | 0.10% | |
| 22 | Venkatesh Pillay | IND | 99 | 0.10% | |
| 23 | Saboori Thakur | IND | 95 | 0.00% | |
| 24 | Ram Saroop Virllay | IND | 91 | 0.00% | |
| 25 | Madan Lal Dharti Pakar | IND | 49 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 2,179, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 193,933 · NOTA n/a · published 196,112 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980
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