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

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South Delhi is one of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi. Voting in South 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.

Ramesh Bidhuri of Bharatiya Janata Party, Raghav Chadha of Aam Aadmi Party, Vijender of Indian National Congress and Siddhant Gautam of Bahujan Samaj Party are some of the prominent names contesting Lok Sabha 2019 election from South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency of Delhi.

After the delimitation in 2008, South Delhi parliamentary constituency has ten Vidhan Sabha segments namely Bijwasan, Palam, Mehrauli, Chhatarpur, Deoli, Ambedkar Nagar, Sangam Vihar, Kalkaji, Tughlakabad and Badarpur.

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

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	RAMESH BIDHURI	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	RAGHAV CHADHA	Aam Aadmi Party
3	VIJENDER	Indian National Congress
4	SIDDHANT GAUTAM	Bahujan Samaj Party
5	Aditya Kumar Naveen	Hum Bhartiya Party
6	D K CHOPRA	All India Forward Bloc
7	JITENDRA	Prism
8	DALBIR SINGH MALIK	Voters Party International
9	DILIP KUMAR	Sanatan Sanskriti Raksha Dal
10	DEEPAK KUMAR	Aapki Apni Party (Peoples)
11	DESH KUMAR	Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh
12	NAVANIT	National Youth Party
13	Dr. MAHENDER SINGH CHURIYANA	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
14	MATHEWS	Bhartiya Insan Party
15	MOHAN KUMAR GUPTA	Mazdoor Kirayedar Vikas Party
16	RAJENDRA PRASAD GUPTA	Parivartan Samaj Party
17	RAM KHELAWAN	Proutist Bloc, India
18	K ROSHAN KUMAR	Pyramid Party of India
19	DR. SUMAN YADAV	Jai Maha Bharath Party
20	SUMEDHA BODH	Jan Samman party
21	SOBRAN SINGH CHAUHAN	Rashtriya Rashtrawadi Party
22	SANDEEP	Rashtriya Jan Adhikar Party
23	NAISE KHAN	Independent
24	BIRJU NAYAK	Independent
25	ROSHAN KUMAR CHOUDHARY	Independent
26	SUNIL KUMAR	Independent
27	HARSH NATH VERMA	Independent

In 2014 Lok Sabha election, Bharatiya Janata Party's Ramesh Bidhuri had won the South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency with a margin of 1,07,000 votes.

Ramesh Bidhuri had bagged 4,97,980 votes as against Aam Aadmi Party's Col. Devinder Sehrawat who bagged the second spot with 3,90,980 votes. Congress leader Ramesh Kumar was pushed to the third spot with 1,25,213 votes.