Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
East Delhi #4GEN
Won
Lal Bihari Tiwari
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
45,362 3.9 pp
votes
over Sheila Dikshit (INC)
The contest
Electors22,64,600
Votes polled11,64,867
Turnout51.4%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors12.9 L57.0% of electorate
Female electors9.74 L43.0% of electorate
Sex ratio
755females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lal Bihari Tiwari | BJP | 5,63,083 | 48.30% | |
| 2 | Sheila Dikshit | INC | 5,17,721 | 44.40% | |
| 3 | Zahid Khan | BSP | 35,126 | 3.00% | |
| 4 | Ch. Kesari Singh | JD | 8,796 | 0.80% | |
| 5 | Yunus Parwaiz | SP | 6,884 | 0.60% | |
| 6 | Irfan | NLP | 4,175 | 0.40% | |
| 7 | Mange Ram | LSP | 4,153 | 0.40% | |
| 8 | Munni Lal Gupta | SS | 3,485 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Kipran Ali | RAS | 2,333 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Ramji Lal Mahaur | RUD | 1,394 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Ajab Singh Bagri | BKDJ | 815 | 0.10% | |
| 12 | Ravinder Kumar Verma | AP | 766 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Rishi Pal Verma | UCP | 736 | 0.10% | |
| 14 | Sabir Khan | RMMP | 710 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Amar Singh | IND | 547 | 0.00% | |
| 16 | Ganga Ram | IND | 495 | 0.00% | |
| 17 | Balwant Singh Parwana | IND | 458 | 0.00% | |
| 18 | Mahinder Kumar Bajaj | IND | 453 | 0.00% | |
| 19 | Phool Chand Kapoor | ABGLP | 412 | 0.00% | |
| 20 | Bhagwan Dass Gupta | IND | 381 | 0.00% | |
| 21 | Parshu Ram Sharma | RJC | 297 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,647, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 1,153,220 · NOTA n/a · published 1,164,867 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-13