Constituency
124. Panaji
Community mirrorGoa · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-PANAJI
INC 28.3%won by 0.2%BJP 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: MAG (MAG) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.4% to 28.3% of the vote here (−10.2%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.4% between them, down from 81.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.1% to 61.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,95,407
Turnout
61.0%
Valid votes
2,41,288
Margin
417
0.17%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAVI SITARAM NAIKIndian National Congress · INC68,22428.3%
- 2RAUT PANDURANG DATTARAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP67,80728.1%
- 3KHALAP RAMAKANT DATTARAMMAG · MAG61,53825.5%
- 4GAONKAR BABUSO SAVLOUGDP · UGDP43,71918.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- MAG
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −21.3%
- INC share
- 38.4% → 28.3%
- BJP share
- 16.9% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- 54.9% → 61.0%