Constituency
158. Mahendragarh
Community mirrorHaryana · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-MAHENDRAGARH
INC 41.5%won by 8.6%BJP 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.4% to 41.5% of the vote here (+14.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.4% of the vote between them, up from 60.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,25,797
Turnout
64.7%
Valid votes
7,93,139
Margin
68,136
8.59%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1INDERJIT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC3,29,12641.5%
- 2COL .RAM SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,60,99032.9%
- 3RAGHU YADAVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,88,35123.7%
- 4TEK CHANDIndependent · IND4,9360.6%
- 5MAHENDER SINGH S/O RAO LAL SINGHIndependent · IND3,3300.4%
- 6PROFESSOR SURJIT SINGHIndependent · IND2,1430.3%
- 7COMRADE RAJENDERIndependent · IND2,0400.3%
- 8MAJOR PARBHU LAL BATRAABJS · ABJS1,6770.2%
- 9SATENDRA PRASADIndependent · IND5460.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +14.7%
- INC share
- 27.4% → 41.5%
- BJP share
- 33.5% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- 64.0% → 64.7%