1977 Delhi Metropolitan Council election

Delhi Metropolitan Council election, 1977 was held in Indian National Capital Territory of Delhi to elect 56 councillors to the Delhi Metropolitan Council.^[1] This Council had no legislative powers, but only an advisory role in administration of the territory.^[2]

1977 Delhi Metropolitan Council election

← 1972 6 October 1977 1983 →
56 of 61 seats in the Delhi Metropolitan Council 31 seats needed for a majority
Registered	2,740,443
Turnout	55.85%
Majority party Minority party   Leader Kalka Dass Party JP INC Seats before New 44 Seats won 46 10 Seat change New 34 Popular vote 52.58% 36.15%
Chairman of the Council before election Mir Mustaq Ahmed Elected Chairman of the Council Kalka Dass JP

Results

Summary of results of the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 1977^[1]

Party		Candidates	Seats won	Votes	Vote %
	Janata Party	56	46	783,873	52.88%
	Indian National Congress	52	10	538,974	36.15%
Total		249	56	1,490,959

The election elected Third Delhi Metropolitan Council. Kalka Dass was Chairman of the Council, Begum Khursheed Kidwai being Deputy Chairman.^[2]

Elected members

Constituency	Reserved for (SC/None)	Member	Party
Sarojini Nagar	None	P.n. Singh		Janata Party
Laxmibai Nagar	None	Kidar Nath Sachdeva		Janata Party
Gole Market	SC	Swarup Chand 'rajan'		Janata Party
Bara Khamba	None	Shiv Charan Gupta		Janata Party
Delhi Contonment	None	Vimal Nagi		Indian National Congress
Minto Road	None	Viresh Pratap Choudhary		Janata Party
Jangpura	None	Inder Mohan Sehgal		Janata Party
Kasturba Nagar	None	Jaswant Singh Phull		Janata Party
Lajpat Nagar	None	Ram Lal Verma		Janata Party
Okhla	None	Lalit Mohan Gautam		Janata Party
Malviya Nagar	None	Hans Raj Sethi		Janata Party
R.k. Puram	None	Ram Bhaj		Janata Party
Hauz Khas	None	K.k. Gupta		Janata Party
Rajinder Nagar	None	Ram Nath Vij		Janata Party
Ashok Nagar	None	Vishnu Dutt		Janata Party
Tilak Nagar	None	O.p. Babbar		Janata Party
Rajouri Garden	None	Harbhagwan Arora		Janata Party
Moti Nagar	None	Madan Lal Khurana		Janata Party
Shakur Basti	None	Ram Gopal Sisodia		Janata Party
Rampura	None	Janardan Gupta		Janata Party
Wazirabad	SC	Mool Chand		Indian National Congress
Narela	None	Shanti Swaroop Tyagi		Janata Party
Bawana	None	Rohtas		Janata Party
Najafgarh	None	Bharat Singh		Indian National Congress
Madipur	SC	Bhore Lal		Indian National Congress
Palam	None	L. Singh		Janata Party
Mehrauli	SC	Kalka Dass		Janata Party
Tughlaqabad	SC	Prem Singh		Indian National Congress
Gita Colony	None	Ishwar Dass Mahajan		Janata Party
Gandhi Nagar	None	Som Nath		Janata Party
Krishna Nagar	None	Yog Dhayan Ahuja		Janata Party
Shahdara	None	Devendra Kumar Jain		Janata Party
Rohtas Nagar	None	Ved Prakash		Indian National Congress
Ghonda	None	Fateh Singh		Janata Party
Civil Lines	None	Kanwar Lal Sharma		Janata Party
Kamla Nagar	None	Charti Lal Goel		Janata Party
Vijay Nagar	None	Prashant Kumar		Janata Party
Model Town	None	Mahavir Vaid		Janata Party
Chandni Chowk	None	Raj Kumar Jain		Janata Party
Ballimaran	None	Vishwambhar Datt Sharma		Janata Party
Ajmeri Gate	None	Sanwal Dass Gupta		Janata Party
Kucha Pati Ram	None	Rajesh Sharma Alias Vasudev		Janata Party
Matia Mahal	None	Begum Khurshid		Janata Party
Pahar Ganj	None	Amar Nath Kumar		Janata Party
Ram Nagar	SC	Babu Ram Solanki		Indian National Congress
Qasabpura	None	Mohd. Ismail		Janata Party
Deputy Ganj	None	Shyam Chanran Gupta		Janata Party
Sohan Ganj	None	Inder Mohan Bhardwaj		Janata Party
Shakti Nagar	None	Satya Pal Chugh		Janata Party
Karampura	None	Brij Mohan Toofan		Janata Party
Sarai Rohilla	None	D.d. Vasisht		Janata Party
Motia Khan	None	Pushpa Kale		Janata Party
Dev Nagar	SC	Moti Lal Bakolia		Indian National Congress
Patel Nagar	None	Kedar Nath Sahni		Janata Party
Anand Parbat	SC	Dharam Dass Shastri		Indian National Congress
Shadipur	SC	Sundervati Naval Prabhakar		Indian National Congress

References

1. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1977 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF DELHI
2. "Delhi Metropolitan Council". delhiassembly.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 19 March 2014.