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South Delhi #2GEN

DELHI · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Sushma Swaraj

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

1,14,006 21.3 pp

votes

over Kapil Sibal (INC)

The contest

71 candidate rows

Electors11,03,959

Votes polled5,35,551

Turnout48.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.16 L55.8% of electorate

Female electors4.88 L44.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 791females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

Candidates

71 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sushma Swaraj	BJP	2,94,570	55.00%
2	Kapil Sibal	INC	1,80,564	33.70%
3	Manoj Prabhakar	AIICT	17,690	3.30%
4	Raj Singh Maan	JD	12,018	2.20%
5	Dines Jain	JP	1,955	0.40%
6	Sanjeev Arora	ICS	1,747	0.30%
7	Jyoti Rindra Chakravarti	IND	966	0.20%
8	Mittar Sen	SP	898	0.20%
9	Ladha Ram Kapoor	IND	792	0.10%
10	Mahender Singh Bawa	JP	767	0.10%
11	Gopal Chaturvedi	IND	764	0.10%
12	Ch. Ramesh Basoya	IND	738	0.10%
13	Hazi M. Farooq	SP	736	0.10%
14	A.K Mahajan	SMP	705	0.10%
15	Bhudev Singh	IND	645	0.10%
16	Lalit Kumar Tanwar	IND	640	0.10%
17	Chander Parkash Sachdeva	IND	622	0.10%
18	Brij Raj Chug	IND	613	0.10%
19	Mushir Ahmed	IND	602	0.10%
20	Narender Dev	IND	600	0.10%
21	Jeewan Singh	IND	584	0.10%
22	Ashok Gautam	IND	570	0.10%
23	J.N Chaudhary	IND	519	0.10%
24	Bal Chand	ABDD	517	0.10%
25	Sudarshan Kumar Chawla	IND	466	0.10%
26	Onkar Nath Chopra	IND	441	0.10%
27	Ashok Kumar Sindhi	IND	341	0.10%
28	D.D Bharal	ABMSK	334	0.10%
29	Sita Ram Bhardwaj	IND	328	0.10%
30	Sis Ram	IND	324	0.10%
30	Mahesh Gupta (ADVOCATE)	RPI	324	0.10%
32	Jeewat Prasad Gupta	IND	257	0.00%
33	Archana Das	IND	252	0.00%
34	Sanjay Bhasin	RAM	247	0.00%
35	Ravi Kumar	ABSR	238	0.00%
36	Harbhajan Singh	IND	232	0.00%
37	Daljit Singh Bawa	BPF	231	0.00%
38	Paramahansa	IND	226	0.00%
39	Om Parkash Jullie	IND	219	0.00%
40	T. Varadarajan	IND	217	0.00%
41	Sham Singh Baba Vidyarthi	HNP	212	0.00%
42	B. Singh Gehlot	BKDJ	203	0.00%
43	Asha Rani Bharti	IND	199	0.00%
44	Narender Kaur	IND	191	0.00%
45	Kuldeep Singh	IND	188	0.00%
46	Aggarwal Mala Rani	IND	178	0.00%
47	Raj Kumar	RSP	177	0.00%
48	Tara Chand	IND	176	0.00%
49	Avtar Singh	IND	172	0.00%
50	Asrar Jamiyai	IND	160	0.00%
51	Raj Kumar	IND	156	0.00%
52	Kaka Joginder Singh Alias Dharti Pakad	IND	153	0.00%
53	Pankaj Malhotra	IND	152	0.00%
54	J.R. Budhiraja (NETAJI)	IND	132	0.00%
55	Balbir Singh Bir	IND	131	0.00%
56	B. Kanta Rao	ISC	129	0.00%
56	Girdhari Kapoor	IND	129	0.00%
58	Awram Singh Alias Ahivaran Singh	IND	123	0.00%
59	Rajan Dhingra	IND	122	0.00%
59	Harish	IND	122	0.00%
61	Manjeet Singh Panja	IND	114	0.00%
62	Hari Dutt Sharma	IND	100	0.00%
63	Vijay Sharma	IND	97	0.00%
64	Bharat Bhushan	IND	96	0.00%
65	Bansi Lal Thareja	IND	89	0.00%
66	Vedpal Shastri	IND	83	0.00%
67	D.N Manchanda	PPNMS	54	0.00%
68	Rakesh Kumar	IND	53	0.00%
69	Amir Singh Bhatia	IND	49	0.00%
70	Shiriniwas	IND	40	0.00%
71	Yogeshwar Davar	IND	30	0.00%

Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,042, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 529,509 · NOTA n/a · published 535,551 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996

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Retrieved: 2026-09-12

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