Constituency
2. Pernem
Community mirrorGoa · Goa Assembly Election, 2012
GA-PERNEM
BJP 63.4%won by 32.3%INC 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.7% to 32.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.5% of the vote between them, up from 77.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
29,515
Turnout
87.7%
Valid votes
25,890
Margin
8,353
32.26%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1RAJENDRA ARLEKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,40663.4%
- 2MANOHAR TRIMBAK AJGAOANKARIndian National Congress · INC8,05331.1%
- 3SUBHASH BARKELO KERKARIndependent · IND8243.2%
- 4SAKHARAM VISHRAM KORGAONKARIndependent · IND1920.7%
- 5KANTA SABAJI JADHAVAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1510.6%
- 6MANOHAR RAJARAM PEDNEKARSJPR · SJPR960.4%
- 7RAJAN KAMBLIIndependent · IND610.2%
- 8SHYAM BABLO AMONKARRPIA · RPIA570.2%
- 9SANTOSH SHANKAR MANDREKARUGDP · UGDP500.2%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +16.6%
- BJP share
- 46.6% → 63.4%
- INC share
- 30.9% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- — → 87.7%