Delimitation Commission redraws/renames parliamentary constituencies

New Delhi, Sep 22 (UNI) The Delimitation Commission in its report has redrawn and renamed parliamentary constituencies in the national capital.

Though the number of constituencies in the city continue to be seven New Delhi, Chandni Chowk and South Delhi constituencies had been redrawn, official sources said today.

Outer Delhi, Karol Bagh and Delhi Sadar had been dropped as names of parliamentary constituencies while North-East Delhi, North-West Delhi and West Delhi are the new entries.

North-West Delhi constituency is now the reserved seat in place of Karol Bagh constituency.

Each parliamentary constituency would have ten assembly constituencies, total of which would continue to be 70. However, number of reserved constituencies is down from 14 to 12.

Nineteen assembly constituencies have been given new names.

The report redrew the constituencies in such a way that each assembly constituency would have an average of 197,800 voters and each parliamentary constituency 19.78 lakh. This would end the present disorganised electoral system in which Outer Delhi constituency had over 30 lakh voters while Chandni Chowk just 3.5 lakh electorate.

It is not known when the new delimitation, which was done of the basis of the 2001 census, would take effect.

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