Constituency
157. Faridabad
Community mirrorHaryana · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-FARIDABAD
BJP 33.8%won by 1.7%INC 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.5% to 1.7%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.1% to 64.7%.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,90,542
Turnout
64.7%
Valid votes
8,99,287
Margin
15,343
1.71%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1RAMCHANDER BAINDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,04,02233.8%
- 2KHURSHID AHMADIndian National Congress · INC2,88,67932.1%
- 3AVTAR SINGH BHADANASJPR · SJPR1,73,89019.3%
- 4DHARMBIR BHADANABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,18,00913.1%
- 5MOHD. AZAZ KHANSamajwadi Party · SP4,1800.5%
- 6MAHADEV SHARMAJanata Dal · JD3,1940.4%
- 7FAROOKIndependent · IND2,3030.3%
- 8KRISHAN KUMARIndependent · IND1,0360.1%
- 9MANGE RAMMSP · MSP9680.1%
- 10SUMITRAIndependent · IND8000.1%
- 11POONAM SINGHAJBP · AJBP6730.1%
- 12RATTAN SINGHIndependent · IND5280.1%
- 13PREMPAL SINGHABHS · ABHS4410.0%
- 14SATYAVIRIndependent · IND3140.0%
- 15DHYAN SINGHIndependent · IND2500.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −5.8%
- BJP share
- 35.8% → 33.8%
- INC share
- 28.2% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- 58.6% → 64.7%