Constituency
114. Chandigarh
Community mirrorChandigarh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-CHANDIGARH
BJP 42.4%won by 3.7%INC 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.3% to 3.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.1% of the vote between them, up from 68.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 53.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,31,146
Turnout
53.2%
Valid votes
2,82,755
Margin
10,366
3.67%
Candidates
18 contested · winner BJP- 1SATYA PAL JAINBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,19,78742.4%
- 2PAWAN KUMAR BANSALIndian National Congress · INC1,09,42138.7%
- 3HARMOHAN DHAWANSJPR · SJPR41,19514.6%
- 4AMAR SINGH CHAHALSamajwadi Party · SP4,5521.6%
- 5SAJJAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,3740.8%
- 6BIMLABSPA · BSPA1,0260.4%
- 7SUNIL SAINIAJBP · AJBP9590.3%
- 8RAVI PARKASHLok Shakti · LS6080.2%
- 9V.S.T. MALIKRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD4980.2%
- 10ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND4550.2%
- 11INDER MALIndependent · IND4460.2%
- 12SHYAM BAHADUR SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD2830.1%
- 13RAM PHALIndependent · IND2580.1%
- 14PARKASH KAURIndependent · IND2540.1%
- 15SURAT CHAND SHARMAIndependent · IND2050.1%
- 16SHAMMI WALIAIndependent · IND1810.1%
- 17SATYA PAL CHAUHANIndependent · IND1510.1%
- 18DIWAN SINGH CHAUHANIndependent · IND1020.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −5.6%
- BJP share
- 39.0% → 42.4%
- INC share
- 29.8% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- 57.5% → 53.2%