Reserved seat in Delhi: There were no reserved seats in the 1952 election, but seven seats were reserved for the Scheduled Castes for the first time during the formation of the Municipal Council in 1967. In the election, 49 seats in 56 assembly constituencies were reserved for general seats and seven seats for scheduled castes. At the same time, after the formation of the Assembly in 1993, a total of 13 seats were reserved for the Scheduled Castes, while the number of reserved seats was reduced to 12 during the delimitation in 2008.
In 1967, Kasturba Nagar, Badli, Tughlaqabad, Basti Julaha, Ragarpura, Devnagar and Anand Nagar seats were reserved for the Scheduled Castes. During the formation of the Legislative Assembly in the year 1993, Madipur, Sultanpur Majra, Bawana, Mongolpuri, Dr. Ambedkar Nagar, Trilokpuri, Patparganj, Seemapuri, Nand Nagri, Narela, Karol Bagh, Ram Nagar, Baljit Nagar reserved seats were reserved.
After the demarkation of assembly constituencies in 2008, 12 constituencies were reserved for SC candidates. These reserved seats are Sultanpur Majra, Bawana, Mongolpuri, Madipur, Ambedkar Nagar, Devli, Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar, Gokalpuri, Kondli, Seemapuri and Trilokpuri.
2-2 MLAs elected in 6 assembly constituencies
In the first assembly elections in Delhi in 1952, the Congress had registered a landslide victory. Currently, there are 70 assembly seats in Delhi. However, interestingly, there were a few assembly constituencies from which not one, but two legislators were elected. One MLA each was elected from 36 assembly constituencies, but there were 6 assembly constituencies in which 2 MLAs were elected in each. These included Reading Road, Sitaram Bazar, Turkman Gate, Ragarpura Dev Nagar, Pahari Dheeraj Basti Julaha, Narela and Mehrauli areas.