The Fourth Legislative Assembly of Delhi was constituted in October 2008 after the 2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections.
Election and government formation
In all, 7 national parties, 8 state parties, 53 registered (unrecognised) parties and other independent candidates contested for the 70 assembly seats of the Assembly.
With 43 seats, INC emerged as the single largest party, much ahead of the half-way mark (35 seats) required to form the government. Congress's tally was followed by BJP with 23 seats. Being the single largest party, INC approached the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Tejendra Khanna and made claim to form a government. INC hence formed the government with Sheila Dikshit as the Chief Minister.
Electors Male Female Others Total Electors 5,966,895 4,759,678 - 10,726,573 Electors who voted 3,481,118 2,694,957 - 6,176,075 Polling percentage 58.34% 56.62% - 57.58%
Candidates Male Female Others Total Candidates 794 81 - 875 Elected 67 3 - 70 Forfeited deposits 641 70 - 711
Important members # From To Position Name Party 01 2008 2013 Chief Minister (Leader of the House) Sheila Dikshit INC 02 2008 2013 Speaker - - 03 2008 2013 Deputy Speaker Amrish Singh Gautam Indian National Congress 04 2008 2013 Leader of the Opposition Vijay Kumar Malhotra Bharatiya Janata Party
List of members Default sort, in ascending order of constituency.
# Assembly constituency Name Party Comment 01 Adarsh Nagar Mangat Ram Singhal INC 02 Ambedkar Nagar Chaudhary Prem Singh INC 03 Babarpur Naresh Gaur BJP 04 Badarpur Ram Singh Netaji BSP 05 Badli Devender Yadav INC 06 Ballimaran Haroon Yusuf INC 07 Bawana Surender Kumar INC 08 Bijwasan Sat Prakash Rana BJP 09 Burari Krishan Tyagi BJP 10 Chandni Chowk Parlad Singh Sawhney INC 11 Chhatarpur Balram Tanwar INC 12 Delhi Cantt Karan Singh Tanwar BJP 13 Deoli Arvinder Singh Lovely INC 14 Dwarka Mahabal Mishra INC 15 Gandhi Nagar Arvinder Singh Lovely INC 16 Ghonda Sahab Singh Chauhan BJP 17 Gokalpur Surendra Kumar BSP 18 Greater Kailash Vijay Kumar Malhotra BJP 19 Hari Nagar Harsharan Singh Balli BJP 20 Janakpuri Jagdish Mukhi BJP 21 Jangpura Tarvinder Singh Marwah INC 22 Kalkaji Subhash Chopra INC 23 Karawal Nagar Mohan Singh Bisht BJP 24 Karol Bagh Surender Pal Ratawal BJP 25 Kasturba Nagar Neeraj Basoya INC 26 Kirari Anil Jha Vats BJP 27 Kondli Amrish Singh Gautam INC 28 Krishna Nagar Harsh Vardhan BJP 29 Laxmi Nagar Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia INC 30 Madipur Mala Ram Gangwal INC 31 Malviya Nagar Kiran Walia INC 32 Mangol Puri Raj Kumar Chauhan INC 33 Matia Mahal Shoaib Iqbal LJP 34 Matiala Sumesh Shokeen INC 35 Mehrauli Yoganand Shastri INC 36 Model Town Kanwar Karan Singh INC 37 Moti Nagar Subhash Sachdeva BJP 38 Mundka Manoj Kumar Shokeen BJP 39 Mustafabad Hasan Ahmed INC 40 Najafgarh Bharat Singh IND 41 Nangloi Jat Bijender Singh INC 42 Nerela Jaswant Singh INC 43 New Delhi Sheila Dikshit INC 44 Okhla Parvez Hashmi INC 45 Palam Dharam Dev Solanki BJP 46 Patel Nagar Rajesh Lilothia INC 47 Patparganj Anil Chaudhary INC 48 R.K. Puram Barkha Singh INC 49 Rajinder Nagar Ramakant Goswami INC 50 Rajouri Garden Dyanand Chandila INC 51 Rithala Kulwant Rana BJP 52 Rohini Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal BJP 53 Rohtas Nagar Ram Babu Sharma INC 54 Sadar Bazar Rajesh Jain INC 55 Sangam Vihar Dr. S.C.L.Gupta BJP 56 Seelampur Chaudhary Mateen Ahmed INC 57 Seemapuri Veer Singh Dhingan INC 58 Shahdara Narender Nath INC 59 Shakur Basti Shyam Lal Garg BJP 60 Shalimar Bagh Ravinder Nath Bansal BJP 61 Sultan Pur Majra Jai Kishan INC 62 Tilak Nagar O.P. Babbar BJP 63 Timarpur Surinder Pal Singh INC 64 Tri Nagar Anil Bhardwaj INC 65 Trilokpuri Sunil Kumar BJP 66 Tughlakabad Ramesh Bidhuri BJP 67 Uttam Nagar Mukesh Sharma INC 68 Vikaspuri Nand Kishore INC 69 Vishwas Nagar Naseeb Singh INC 70 Wazirpur Hari Shanker Gupta INC
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