Constituency
273. Malegaon
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-MALEGAON
INC 42.9%won by 12.2%BJP 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.5% to 42.9% of the vote here (+12.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.6% of the vote between them, up from 66.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.1% to 47.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,72,090
Turnout
47.0%
Valid votes
5,03,392
Margin
61,196
12.16%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KAHANDOLE ZAMARU MANGALUIndian National Congress · INC2,15,84642.9%
- 2RAUT KACHARU BHAUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,54,65030.7%
- 3MAHALE HARIBHAU SHANKARJanata Dal · JD65,79013.1%
- 4GAVIT JIWA PANDUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM63,59412.6%
- 5UTTAM DHARMA MONDHEBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8190.4%
- 6KHAN NAJMUL ISLAM AHAMAD NASIMIndependent · IND1,3700.3%
- 7GAIKWAD AMRUTA KASHIRAMIndependent · IND3230.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +16.3%
- INC share
- 30.5% → 42.9%
- BJP share
- 34.6% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- 40.9% → 47.0%