Constituency
7. Saligao
Community mirrorGoa · Goa Assembly Election, 2012
GA-SALIGAO
BJP 52.0%won by 29.9%IND 22.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.7% to 29.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to Independent (IND).
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
23,782
Turnout
81.6%
Valid votes
19,409
Margin
5,808
29.92%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1DILIP PARULEKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,08452.0%
- 2D'SOUZA TULIOIndependent · IND4,27622.0%
- 3SURESH V. PARULEKARNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,7298.9%
- 4FRANCISCO COLACOIndependent · IND1,1926.1%
- 5PAUL FERNANDESIndependent · IND1,1355.8%
- 6TRAJANO D'MELLOIndependent · IND6253.2%
- 7GAJANAN RAMA NAIKCommunist Party of India · CPI1660.9%
- 8OSBERT MANUEL D'CUNHAIndependent · IND740.4%
- 9ALEX CAMIL RODRIGUESIndependent · IND650.3%
- 10MANOJ ANAND SANGODKARAIMF · AIMF630.3%
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–IND swing
- +1.7%
- BJP share
- 43.1% → 52.0%
- IND share
- 14.9% → 22.0%
- Turnout
- — → 81.6%