To know more about candidates from your constituency, click on the name of the constituency in the adjoining list.

Delhi Election Watch (DEW) is a citizens' initiative. It is a collective effort of several NGOs which came together with the objective of increasing voter awareness and operationalising their right to know their candidates. CHRI is the convenor of DEW. The voters' right to know their candidate was the basis of the Supreme Court's historic judgement of March 2003. This judgement made it mandatory for all candidates to disclose their criminal background, if any, their assets and liabilities including money owed to government and public financial institutions and their educational background. The 2003 elections to the Assemblies of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram are the first major state wide elections since the March judgement.

Young volunteers of DEW fanned out to collect affidavits submitted by candidates at the time of filing nominations from the office of the Returning Officers. Despite clear orders from the Election Commission that copies of affidavits be made available to serious organisations like DEW, collecting affidavits was a difficult task. Armed with proper credentials and letters from the CEC they asked for candidates' affidavits only to be told that there were no provisions for giving copies, they knew of no orders, there was no photocopier, there was no time or there was no necessity to give any information. Elsewhere, Returning Officers wanted assurances that public information in the affidavits would not be used for 'wrong purposes' whatever that may mean or asked for letters from the Election Commission to be issued directly to them by name before they would honour its instructions. Nevertheless, DEW was able to secure more than three quarters of the affidavits filed.

Information about the financial and educational background and criminal past (if any) contained in the affidavits were summarised and tabulated by the Lokniti-CSDS team in Delhi. This was done under the guidance of a specially set up Screening Committee. Since the information has been taken from the sworn affidavits filed by candidates themselves and given the limited time, DEW has not checked its accuracy. CHRI has in its keep all affidavits collected by volunteers of both Election Watches and will be happy to provide access to any person who is interested in reading them.

Mere information disclosure will not serve its full purpose unless the information reaches the voters and they make effective use of this information for making informed choices while voting. We hope the summarised information in the following tables will be of help to the voters. Only an informed and watchful electorate can keep criminals and corrupt elements away from our legislatures.

1 Sarojini Nagar
2 Gole Market
3 Minto Road
4 Kasturba Nagar
5 Jangpura

2 South Delhi
6 Okhla
7 Kalkaji
8 Malviya Nagar
9 Hauz Khas
10 R.K.Puram
11 Delhi Cantonment
12 Janak Puri
13 Hari Nagar
14 Tilak Nagar
15 Rajouri Garden

3 Outer Delhi
16 Madipur (SC)
17 Tri Nagar
18 Shakurbasti
19 Shalimar Bagh
20 Badli
21 Sahibabad Daulatpur
22 Bawana (SC)
23 Sultanpur Majra (SC)
24 Mangolpuri (SC)
25 Nangloi Jat
26 Vishnu Garden
27 Hastsal
28 Najafgarh
29 Nasirpur
30 Palam
31 Mahipalpur
32 Mehrauli
33 Saket
34 Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (SC)
35 Tughlakabad
36 Badarpur

4 East Delhi
37 Trilok Puri (SC)
38 Patpar Ganj (SC)
39 Mandawali
40 Geeta Colony
41 Gandhi Nagar
42 Krishna Nagar
43 Vishwash Nagar
44 Shahdara
45 Seemapuri (SC)
46 Nand Nagari (SC)
47 Rohtas Nagar
48 Babarpur
49 Seelampur
50 Ghonda
51 Yamuna Vihar
52 Qarawal Nagar
53 Wazirpur
54 Narela (SC)
55 Bhalswa Jahangirpur
56 Adarsh Nagar

5 Chandni Chowk
57 Pahar Ganj
58 Matia Mahal
59 Balli Maran
60 Chandni Chowk

6 Delhi Sadar
61 Timarpur
62 Model Town
63 Kamla Nagar
64 Sadar Bazar
65 Moti Nagar

7 Karol Bagh (SC)
66 Patel nagar
67 Rajinder Nagar
68 Karol Bagh (SC)
69 Ram Nagar (SC)
70 Baljit Nagar (SC)