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56 of 61 seats in the Delhi Metropolitan Council 31 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 2,740,443 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 55.85% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Delhi Metropolitan Council election, 1977 was held in Indian National Capital Territory of Delhi to elect 56 councillors to the Delhi Metropolitan Council.[1] This Council had no legislative powers, but only an advisory role in administration of the territory.[2]
Results
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| Party | Candidates | Seats won | Votes | Vote % | |||||
| Janata Party | 56 | 46 | 783,873 | 52.88% | |||||
| Indian National Congress | 52 | 10 | 538,974 | 36.15% | |||||
| Total | 249 | 56 | 1,490,959 | ||||||
The election elected Third Delhi Metropolitan Council. Kalka Dass was Chairman of the Council, Begum Khursheed Kidwai being Deputy Chairman.[2]
Elected members
| Constituency | Reserved for (SC/None) |
Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarojini Nagar | None | P.n. Singh | Janata Party | |
| Laxmibai Nagar | None | Kidar Nath Sachdeva | Janata Party | |
| Gole Market | SC | Swarup Chand 'rajan' | Janata Party | |
| Bara Khamba | None | Shiv Charan Gupta | Janata Party | |
| Delhi Contonment | None | Vimal Nagi | Indian National Congress | |
| Minto Road | None | Viresh Pratap Choudhary | Janata Party | |
| Jangpura | None | Inder Mohan Sehgal | Janata Party | |
| Kasturba Nagar | None | Jaswant Singh Phull | Janata Party | |
| Lajpat Nagar | None | Ram Lal Verma | Janata Party | |
| Okhla | None | Lalit Mohan Gautam | Janata Party | |
| Malviya Nagar | None | Hans Raj Sethi | Janata Party | |
| R.k. Puram | None | Ram Bhaj | Janata Party | |
| Hauz Khas | None | K.k. Gupta | Janata Party | |
| Rajinder Nagar | None | Ram Nath Vij | Janata Party | |
| Ashok Nagar | None | Vishnu Dutt | Janata Party | |
| Tilak Nagar | None | O.p. Babbar | Janata Party | |
| Rajouri Garden | None | Harbhagwan Arora | Janata Party | |
| Moti Nagar | None | Madan Lal Khurana | Janata Party | |
| Shakur Basti | None | Ram Gopal Sisodia | Janata Party | |
| Rampura | None | Janardan Gupta | Janata Party | |
| Wazirabad | SC | Mool Chand | Indian National Congress | |
| Narela | None | Shanti Swaroop Tyagi | Janata Party | |
| Bawana | None | Rohtas | Janata Party | |
| Najafgarh | None | Bharat Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| Madipur | SC | Bhore Lal | Indian National Congress | |
| Palam | None | L. Singh | Janata Party | |
| Mehrauli | SC | Kalka Dass | Janata Party | |
| Tughlaqabad | SC | Prem Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| Gita Colony | None | Ishwar Dass Mahajan | Janata Party | |
| Gandhi Nagar | None | Som Nath | Janata Party | |
| Krishna Nagar | None | Yog Dhayan Ahuja | Janata Party | |
| Shahdara | None | Devendra Kumar Jain | Janata Party | |
| Rohtas Nagar | None | Ved Prakash | Indian National Congress | |
| Ghonda | None | Fateh Singh | Janata Party | |
| Civil Lines | None | Kanwar Lal Sharma | Janata Party | |
| Kamla Nagar | None | Charti Lal Goel | Janata Party | |
| Vijay Nagar | None | Prashant Kumar | Janata Party | |
| Model Town | None | Mahavir Vaid | Janata Party | |
| Chandni Chowk | None | Raj Kumar Jain | Janata Party | |
| Ballimaran | None | Vishwambhar Datt Sharma | Janata Party | |
| Ajmeri Gate | None | Sanwal Dass Gupta | Janata Party | |
| Kucha Pati Ram | None | Rajesh Sharma Alias Vasudev | Janata Party | |
| Matia Mahal | None | Begum Khurshid | Janata Party | |
| Pahar Ganj | None | Amar Nath Kumar | Janata Party | |
| Ram Nagar | SC | Babu Ram Solanki | Indian National Congress | |
| Qasabpura | None | Mohd. Ismail | Janata Party | |
| Deputy Ganj | None | Shyam Chanran Gupta | Janata Party | |
| Sohan Ganj | None | Inder Mohan Bhardwaj | Janata Party | |
| Shakti Nagar | None | Satya Pal Chugh | Janata Party | |
| Karampura | None | Brij Mohan Toofan | Janata Party | |
| Sarai Rohilla | None | D.d. Vasisht | Janata Party | |
| Motia Khan | None | Pushpa Kale | Janata Party | |
| Dev Nagar | SC | Moti Lal Bakolia | Indian National Congress | |
| Patel Nagar | None | Kedar Nath Sahni | Janata Party | |
| Anand Parbat | SC | Dharam Dass Shastri | Indian National Congress | |
| Shadipur | SC | Sundervati Naval Prabhakar | Indian National Congress | |
References
- 1 2 Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1977 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF DELHI
- 1 2 "Delhi Metropolitan Council". delhiassembly.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
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