North East Delhi constituency of Delhi Lok Sabha Election 2024: Date of voting, result, candidates list, main parties, schedule

NEW DELHI: North East Delhi constituency, along with six other Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi, will vote in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 25, 2024. The results for North East Delhi will be announced on June 4.

North East Delhi is one of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in New Delhi. It comprises of Central Delhi district, North East Delhi district, and part of Shahdara district.

In 2019, this constituency saw a 63.66% voter turnout. BJP candidate Gautam Gambhir won with a margin of 391,222 votes, securing 696,156 votes. He defeated Arvinder Singh Lovely of the INC, who received 304,934 votes.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress candidate Kanhaiya Kumar is contesting against BJP's incumbent MP Manoj Tiwari. Manoj Tiwari is the only BJP MP from the national capital to be re-nominated by the party.

This election marks Kanhaiya Kumar's second attempt at a parliamentary seat. In 2019, he contested unsuccessfully against Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Giriraj Singh on a Communist Party of India (CPI) ticket from Bihar's Begusarai constituency.

Manoj Tiwari aims to secure re-election in North East Delhi and hopes to draw support for the BJP in next year's state assembly elections.

The BJP, which won all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi in the last election, will face the INDIA bloc parties, AAP and Congress, which are contesting in alliance.

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