Bijwasan (Delhi Assembly constituency)

Bijwasan
Constituency for the Vidhan Sabha
District	South Delhi
State	Delhi
Current constituency
Created	2008
Party	AAP
MLA	Devinder Kumar Sehrawat

Bijwasan Vidhan Sabha constituency (Hindi: बिजवासन विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 70 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Delhi. This constituency covers part of Vasant Kunj, Mahipalpur, Rangpuri, Nangal Dewat, Bijwasan, Samalkha, Bamnauli, Kapashera, Shahbad Mohammadpur, Rajnagar, Part of Dwarka.

Overview

Present geographical structure of Bijwasan 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]

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

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

  BJP     AAP  

Election		Member	Party
	2008	Sat Prakash Rana	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2013	Sat Prakash Rana	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2015	Devinder Sehrawat	Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2015 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015: Bijwasan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AAP	Devinder Sehrawat	65,006	54.99	+22.67
	BJP	Sat Prakash Rana	45,470	38.46	+3.81
	INC	Vijay Singh Lochav	5,258	4.44	-13.06
	BSP	Yogesh Gaur	641	0.54	-11.06
	INLD	Pankaj Kumar	421	0.35	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	496	0.41	-0.25
Majority			19,536	16.53	+14.21
Turnout			1,18,218
	AAP gain from BJP		Swing	+22.67

2013 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013: Bijwasan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Sat Prakash Rana	35,988	34.65	-6.68
	AAP	Devinder Sehrawat	33,574	32.32
	INC	Vijay Singh Lochav	18,173	17.50	-20.81
	BSP	Narender Rana	12,053	11.60	-7.24
	SP	Surender Bhardwaj	2,370	2.28
	JD(U)	Jay Vir Singh	500	0.48
	Independent	Inder Singh	290	0.28
	Independent	Ombir	239	0.23
	NOTA	None	688	0.66
Majority			2,414	2.32	-0.70
Turnout			103,875
	BJP hold		Swing	-6.68

2008 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2008: Bijwasan^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Sat Prakash Rana	27,427	41.33
	INC	Vijay Singh Lochav	25,422	38.31
	BSP	Vinod Kumar Yadav	12,506	18.84
	Independent	Harinder Rana	642	0.97
	LJP	Suresh Chand	370	0.56
Majority			2,005	3.02
Turnout			66,367	59.1
	BJP win (new seat)

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. p. 549.
2. 2008 Election Commission of India