Constituency
1. Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Community mirrorAndaman & Nicobar Islands · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ANDAMAN-NICOBAR-ISLANDS
INC 35.9%won by 0.4%BJP 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.0% to 0.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.4% between them, down from 82.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.2% to 62.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,32,013
Turnout
62.9%
Valid votes
1,45,836
Margin
544
0.37%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MANORANJAN BHAKTAIndian National Congress · INC52,36535.9%
- 2BISHNU PADA RAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP51,82135.5%
- 3KULDEEP RAI SHARMAICS · ICS29,68720.4%
- 4TAPAN KUMAR BEPARICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,2725.7%
- 5HENRYIndependent · IND3,5092.4%
- 6KALIMUTHU DHEVAR K.Independent · IND1820.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −33.6%
- INC share
- 58.2% → 35.9%
- BJP share
- 24.3% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- 60.7% → 62.9%