East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency of Delhi: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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East Delhi is one of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi. Voting in East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency in the sixth phase was on May 12 and counting is on May 23.

Delhi saw a dip in its turnout from 65 percent in 2014 to 60 percent in 2018, despite a three-cornered contest among the BJP, Congress and AAP with several high profile candidates.

Arvinder Singh Lovely of Indian National Congress, Atishi of Aam Aadmi Party, Gautam Gambhir of Bharatiya Janata Party and Sanjay Kumar of Bahujan Samaj Party are some of the prominent names contesting Lok Sabha 2019 election from East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency of Delhi.

After the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in 2008, East Delhi parliamentary constituency was divided into ten Vidhan Sabha segments namely Jangpura, Okhla, Trilokpuri, Kondli, Patparganj, Laxmi Nagar, Vishwas Nagar, Krishna Nagar, Gandhi Nagar and Shahdara.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency of Delhi.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	ARVINDER SINGH LOVELY	Indian National Congress
2	ATISHI	Aam Aadmi Party
3	GAUTAM GAMBHIR	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	SANJAY KUMAR	Bahujan Samaj Party
5	AJAY CHAUDHARY	Aapki Apni Party (Peoples)
6	ANUPAM TRIPATHI	Bhartiya Kisan Party
7	AMANULLAH AHMED	Bhartiya Insan Party
8	DR. KRISHAN SINGH CHAUHAN	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
9	DEEPTI NADELLA	Pyramid Party of India
10	D. DURGA PRASAD	Challengers Party
11	NEERU MONGIA	Prism
12	MUKESH JADLY	Uttarakhand Pragatisheel Party
13	MOHAN LAL SHARMA	Satya Bahumat Party
14	MANJEET SINGH	Rashtra Nirman Party
15	MANJU CHHIBBER	Republican Party of India (A)
16	SATISH KUMAR PRAJAPATI	Mazdoor Kirayedar Vikas Party
17	SURENDER GUPTA	National Apni Party
18	HAFIZ BURHANUDDIN	The National Road Map Party of India
19	HITESH KUMAR	Jai Prakash Janata Dal
20	ASHOK SURANA	Independent
21	MANOJ KUMAR GUPTA	Independent
22	RAVI KUMAR	Independent
23	RAHIMUDDIN SHAH	Independent
24	RAJ KUMAR DHINGIYA	Independent
25	SHIV KUMAR	Independent
26	HARBALWINDER SINGH	Independent

In 2014 Lok Sabha election, Bharatiya Janata Party's Maheish Girri had won the East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 1,90,463 votes.

Maheish Girri had bagged 5,72,202 votes as against Aam Aadmi Party's Rajmohan Gandhi who bagged the second spot with 3,81,739 votes. Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit was pushed to the third spot with 2,03,240 votes.