Constituency
36. Quepem
Community mirrorGoa · Goa Assembly Election, 2012
GA-QUEPEM
INC 44.2%won by 25.6%IND 18.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 25.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 18.6% — it polled just 1.7% in 2007.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.8% between them, down from 83.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
28,898
Turnout
86.0%
Valid votes
24,861
Margin
6,373
25.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDRAKANT KAVALEKARIndian National Congress · INC10,99444.2%
- 2PRAKASH SHANKAR VELIPIndependent · IND4,62118.6%
- 3PRAKASH ARJUN VELIPMAG · MAG4,53618.2%
- 4COLACO MANUELUGDP · UGDP4,35617.5%
- 5JOSEPH GONSALVESGVP · GVP3541.4%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −17.3%
- INC share
- 44.6% → 44.2%
- IND share
- 1.7% → 18.6%
- Turnout
- — → 86.0%