Uttam Nagar (Delhi Assembly constituency)

Uttam Nagar
Constituency for the Vidhan Sabha
District	West Delhi
State	Delhi
Current constituency
Created	2008
Party	AAP
MLA	Naresh Balyan

Uttam Nagar Vidhan Sabha constituency (Hindi: उत्तम नगर विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 70 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the National Capital Territory in northern India.

Overview

Present geographical structure of Uttam Nagar 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] MLA Mukesh kumar is leading face of Congress party and CM Candidate for upcoming delhi election.

Uttam Nagar is part of West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency along with nine other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Madipur, Rajouri Garden, Hari Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Janakpuri, Vikaspuri, Dwarka, Matiala and Najafgarh.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

  BJP     INC     AAP  

Election		Member	Party
	2008	Mukesh Sharma	Indian National Congress
	2013	Pawan Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2015	Naresh Balyan	Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2015 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015: Uttam Nagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AAP	Naresh Balyan	85,881	51.99	+26.71
	BJP	Pawan Sharma	55,462	33.58	-2.80
	INC	Mukesh Sharma	20,703	12.53	-19.08
	BSP	Abdul Hamid Barshid	884	0.54	-0.68
	NOTA	None	672	0.41	-0.27
Majority			30,419	18.42	+13.65
Turnout			1,65,180
	AAP gain from BJP		Swing	+26.71

2013 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013: Uttam Nagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJP	Pawan Sharma	48,377	36.38	-2.58
	INC	Mukesh Sharma	42,031	31.61	-14.42
	AAP	Desh Raj Raghav	33,619	25.28
	Independent	Shyam Babu Gupta	5,272	3.96
	BSP	Raja Ram	1,626	1.22	-3.77
	Independent	Kuldeep	261	0.20
	Shiv Sena	Nirmala Devi	236	0.18
	Independent	Ramesh Kumar Jain	217	0.16
	JD(U)	Vinod Kumar Singh	205	0.15
	BBP	Veenu Sahai	98	0.07
	NOTA	None	1,041	0.78
Majority			6,346	4.77	-2.30
Turnout			132,983
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	-2.58

2008 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2008: Uttam Nagar^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	INC	Mukesh Sharma	46,765	46.03
	BJP	Pawan Sharma	39,582	38.96
	NCP	Rajender Bhardwaj	8,064	7.94
	BSP	Om Prakash Jain	5,071	4.99
	Independent	Raj Bala	524	0.52
	Independent	Ramesh Kumar Jain	386	0.38
	Independent	Naveen Kumar	243	0.24
	SP	M R Sharma	205	0.20
	Indian Justice Party	Prem Chand Prajapati	194	0.19
	Independent	Ziley Singh	145	0.14
	RTKP	Kishan Lal Verma	142	0.14
	LNJSP	Sita Sharma	109	0.11
	Independent	Om Bir	94	0.09
	BPC	Shobha Kaushik	78	0.08
Majority			7,183	7.07
Turnout			101,602	62.4
	INC 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