Constituency
50. Ghatkopar
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1999
MH-GHATKOPAR
BJP 61.8%won by 39.3%INC 22.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.9% to 39.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,14,278
Margin
44,952
39.34%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1PRAKASH MEHTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP70,64161.8%
- 2CHANDRIKA PREMJI KENIYAIndian National Congress · INC25,68922.5%
- 3JYANTIBHAI GAMBHIRDAS PAREKHNationalist Congress Party · NCP15,99514.0%
- 4PRATAP JITENDRA MAKWANABahujan Samaj Party · BSP7240.6%
- 5SHAH DHARMESH LAXMIKANTIndependent · IND5560.5%
- 6BAPU JAGDHANEIndependent · IND3520.3%
- 7DILIP SHRIPAT JADHAVIndependent · IND3210.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +17.4%
- BJP share
- 58.3% → 61.8%
- INC share
- 36.5% → 22.5%
- Turnout
- — → —