Sangam Vihar (Delhi Assembly constituency)

Sangam Vihar
Constituency for the Vidhan Sabha
District	South Delhi
State	Delhi
Current constituency
Created	2008
Party	AAP
MLA	Dinesh Mohaniya

Sangam Vihar Vidhan Sabha constituency (Hindi: संगम विहार विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 70 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the National Capital Territory in northern India.

Overview

Present geographical structure of Sangam Vihar 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]

Sangam Vihar is part of South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency along with nine other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Bijwasan, Ambedkar Nagar, Chhatarpur, Deoli, Kalkaji, Tughlakabad, Palam, Badarpur and Mehrauli. . Around 1.5 million lived there. There is only one government school for around 5 lakhs people. water supply is mainly through tanker ( Sonia Vihar water work is initiated). There is no government hospital(But there are free dispensaries).

It is in a major part of South Delhi and has large areas of forest and unused land connected on the other side with Haryana borders. But still government interactions in this area is very limited.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Key

BJP AAP

	Member	Party
2008	Dr. Shiv Charan Lal Gupta	Bharatiya Janata Party
2013	Dinesh Mohaniya	Aam Aadmi Party
2015	Dinesh Mohaniya	Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2015 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015: Sangam Vihar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Dinesh Mohaniya	72,131	65.95	+38.08
	BJP	Dr. Shiv Charan Lal Gupta	28,143	25.73	-1.27
	INC	Vishan Swaroop Agarwal	3,423	3.13	-15.30
	BSP	Shish Pal Singh	3,146	2.87	-8.18
	NOTA	None of the above	467	0.42	+0.09
Majority			43,988	40.22	+39.35
Turnout			1,09,358
	AAP hold		Swing	+37.45

2013 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013: Sangam Vihar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Dinesh Mohaniya	24,851	27.87
	BJP	Shiv Charan Lal Gupta	24,074	27.00	-0.37
	INC	Jag Parvesh	16,435	18.43	-4.11
	BSP	Vir Singh	9,850	11.05	-4.68
	JD(U)	Shish Pal Singh	9,010	10.10	+9.96
	Independent	Dasharth Chohan	1,500	1.68
	PECP	Shahid	753	0.84
	Independent	Kalpana Jha	508	0.57
	Proutist Bloc	Amarjeet Verma	484	0.54
	Independent	Lokesh Kumar	281	0.32
	Independent	Diwakar Jha	246	0.28
	RMSP	Ram Wati	199	0.22
	Independent	Shailendra Kumar	193	0.22
	Indian Justice Party	Rita Gill	172	0.19	-0.04
	RJSP	Dipankar Banerjee	152	0.17
	SP	Naresh Sharma	91	0.10	-12.91
	LJP	Mohd Younus	70	0.08	-3.93
	NOTA	None	298	0.33
Majority			777	0.87	-3.96
Turnout			89,167
	AAP gain from BJP		Swing

2008 results

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2008: Sangam Vihar^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr S C L Gupta	20,332	27.37
	INC	Amod Kumar Kanth	16,743	22.54
	BSP	Ranjit Singh	11,687	15.73
	NCP	Vir Singh	10,577	14.24
	SP	A K Gupta	9,665	13.01
	LJP	Suresh Choudhary	2,975	4.01
	Independent	Vijay Dua	424	0.57
	Independent	Rekha	360	0.48
	RBCP	Karan Singh Kadam	269	0.36
	NLHP	Md Nasir Khan	219	0.29
	Independent	Kailash Giri	219	0.29
	Independent	Mohd Anwar Alam	211	0.28
	Independent	Jag Prasad	191	0.26
	Independent	Bimal Gupta	153	0.21
	Indian Justice Party	Brahm Pal Singh	152	0.20
	JD(U)	Mahesh Chandra Singh	104	0.14
Majority			3,589	4.83
Turnout			74,281	51.4
	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

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