Palam (Delhi Assembly constituency)

Palam
Constituency for the Vidhan Sabha
District	South Delhi
State	Delhi
Current constituency
Created	1993
Party	AAP
MLA	Bhavna Gaur

Palam Vidhan Sabha constituency (Hindi: पालम विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 70 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the National Capital Territory in northern India.

Overview

Present geographical structure of Palam constituency came into existence in 2008 as a part of the implementation of the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.^[1]

Palam is part of South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency (Earlier it was under erstwhile Outer Delhi parliamentary constituency) along with nine other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Bijwasan, Sangam Vihar, Ambedkar Nagar, Chhatarpur, Deoli, Kalkaji, Tughlakabad, Badarpur and Mehrauli.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

BJP INC AAP

	Member	Party
1993	Dharam Dev Solanki	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Mahender Yadav	Indian National Congress
2003	Dharam Dev Solanki	Bharatiya Janata Party
2008	Dharam Dev Solanki	Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Dharam Dev Solanki	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Bhavna Gaur	Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2015 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015: Palam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AAP	Bhavna Gaur	82,637	55.96	+29.17
	BJP	Dharam Dev Solanki	51,788	35.06	+1.76
	INC	Madan Mohan	10,529	7.13	-8.05
	BSP	Ranbir Singh Solanki	900	0.60	-18.73
	CPI	Dalip Kumar	488	0.33	-0.06
	NOTA	None of the above	475	0.32	-0.38
Majority			30,849	20.90	+14.39
Turnout			1,47,671
	AAP gain from BJP		Swing	+29.17

2013 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013: Palam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Dharm Dev Solanki	42,833	33.30	-10.82
	AAP	Bhavna Gaur	34,661	26.79
	BSP	Madan Mohan	24,862	19.33	-3.44
	INC	Vinay Mishra	19,531	15.18	-15.29
	NYP	Neeraj Kr Sharma	3,631	2.82
	JD(U)	Sunil Pokhriyal	1,063	0.83
	CPI	Saroj Bala	498	0.39	-0.32
	Independent	Rajendra Prasad Singh	273	0.21
	DMDK	P Rathinam	230	0.15
	Independent	Dalip	176	0.14
	RLD	Prahlad Rana	165	0.13
	NOTA	None	903	0.70
Majority			8,372	6.51	-7.14
Turnout			128,626
	BJP hold		Swing	-10.82

2008 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2008: Palam^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Dharam Dev Solanki	40,712	44.12	-3.83
	INC	Mahender Yadav	28,119	30.47	-14.93
	BSP	Madan Mohan	21,014	22.77	+18.92
	CPI	Bhairav Dutt Dhyani	659	0.71
	Independent	Mahesh Kumar	600	0.65	-0.57
	Samata Party	Chanchal Sharma	349	0.38
	LNJSP	Mohan Pal Sankhla	307	0.33
	Independent	Pawan Kumar	259	0.28
	RJSP	Deepak Kumar	258	0.28
Majority			12,593	13.65	+11.10
Turnout			92,277	58.8	+10.03
	BJP hold		Swing	-3.83

2003 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2003: Palam^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Dharam Dev Solanki	43,521	47.95	+7.58
	INC	Sumesh	41,204	45.40	-3.22
	BSP	L C Sharma	3,496	3.85	+1.04
	Independent	Harish Chander Jha	488	0.54
	RSP(U)	Anil Kumar Chand	463	0.51
	JD(U)	Govind Singh Negi	361	0.40
	Independent	Virendar	263	0.29
	LP(S)	Kirpa Shankar Verma	244	0.27
	Independent	Mam Chand Singh	170	0.19
	Independent	Rajpal Singh Khokhar	166	0.18
	AD	Kiran Brahmi	151	0.17
	Indian Justice Party	Stephen Verghese	82	0.09
	Independent	Mahesh Kumar	73	0.08
	Independent	Krishan Lal	72	0.08
Majority			2,317	2.55	-5.70
Turnout			90,754	48.77	+2.46
	BJP hold		Swing	+7.58

1998 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1998: Palam^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Mahender Yadav	32,699	48.62	+15.49
	BJP	Dharam Dev Solanki	27,152	40.37	-0.86
	Independent	Jasbir Singh Solanki	2,196	3.27
	BSP	Sarnam Singh Pal	1,889	2.81	+0.35
	RJD	Mahender Yadav	1,869	2.78
	Independent	Avdesh Tiwari	829	1.23
	Janata Dal	Shivan Bansal	473	0.70	+20.55
	Independent	Ram Swaroop	126	0.19
	Independent	Parveen Kumar	25	0.04
Majority			5,547	8.25	+0.15
Turnout			67,258	46.31	-12.20
	INC hold		Swing	+15.49

1993 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1993: Palam^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Dharam Dev Solanki	20,671	41.23
	INC	Mukhtyar Singh	16,613	33.13
	Janata Dal	Sukhbir Singh Solanki	10,655	21.25
	BSP	Tikam Singh	1,233	2.46
	Independent	Ram Rattan Doohan	336	0.67
	Janata Party	Raj Kumar	204	0.41
	DPP	Madhav Pathak	162	0.32
	Mukt Bharat	Randhir Singh	82	0.16
	Independent	Rama Shankar Singh	73	0.15
	Independent	Sukhbir Singh	60	0.12
	Doordarshi Party	Shyam Sunder	49	0.10
Majority			4,058	8.10
Turnout			50,138	58.51
	BJP hold		Swing

References

↑ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 549.
↑ 2008 Election Commission of India
↑ 2003 Election Commission of India
↑ 1998 Election Commission of India
↑ 1993 Election Commission of India

Delhi Legislative Assembly

Assemblies	First (1993–98) Second (1998–2003) Third (2003–08) Fourth (2008–13) Fifth (2013–14) Sixth (2015–)

Constituencies	Adarsh Nagar Ambedkar Nagar Babarpur Badarpur Badli Ballimaran Bawana Bijwasan Burari Chandni Chowk Chhatarpur Delhi Cantt Deoli Dwarka Gandhi Nagar Ghonda Gokalpur Greater Kailash Hari Nagar Janakpuri Jangpura Kalkaji Karawal Nagar Karol Bagh Kasturba Nagar Kirari Kondli Krishna Nagar Laxmi Nagar Madipur Malviya Nagar Mangol Puri Matia Mahal Matiala Mehrauli Model Town Moti Nagar Mundka Mustafabad Najafgarh Nangloi Jat Nerela New Delhi Okhla Palam Patel Nagar Patparganj R.K. Puram Rajinder Nagar Rajouri Garden Rithala Rohini Rohtas Nagar Sadar Bazar Sangam Vihar Seelampur Seemapuri Shahdara Shakur Basti Shalimar Bagh Sultan Pur Majra Tilak Nagar Timarpur Tri Nagar Trilokpuri Tughlakabad Uttam Nagar Vikaspuri Vishwas Nagar Wazirpur

Former constituencies	Geeta Colony

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