Constituency
13. St. Cruz
Community mirrorGoa · Goa Assembly Election, 2017
GA-ST-CRUZ
INC 27.9%won by 2.9%BJP 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.9% to 2.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 25.0% — it did not contest here in 2012.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.9% between them, down from 69.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.6% to 80.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
27,711
Turnout
80.2%
Valid votes
22,215
Margin
642
2.89%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1ANTONIO CAETANO FERNANDESIndian National Congress · INC6,20227.9%
- 2HEMANT DINANATH GOLATKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,56025.0%
- 3RODOLFO LOUIS FERNANDESIndependent · IND5,26223.7%
- 4PRAKASH GOPI NAIKMAG · MAG2,70712.2%
- 5JOSE VINCENT GOMESAam Aadmi Party · AAP1,7127.7%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3031.4%
- 7HELENA LOURENCOIndependent · IND2271.0%
- 8PEDRO CAITANO PIRES ALIAS PETER PIRESCommunist Party of India · CPI1060.5%
- 9SHAKEEL JAMAL SHAIKHNationalist Congress Party · NCP750.3%
- 10JOSE LOPESIndependent · IND610.3%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −37.5%
- INC share
- 40.4% → 27.9%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 25.0%
- Turnout
- 83.8% → 80.2%