Constituency
279. Akola
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-AKOLA
RPI 50.6%won by 4.5%BJP 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to RPI (RPI), which now leads by 4.5%.
- RPI vote shareRPI went from 33.2% to 50.6% of the vote here (+17.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 67.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.2% to 64.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,20,511
Turnout
64.6%
Valid votes
7,23,612
Margin
32,782
4.53%
Candidates
9 contested · winner RPI- 1AMBEDKAR PRAKASH YASHAWANTRPI · RPI3,66,42750.6%
- 2FUNDKAR PANDURANG PUNDLIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,33,64546.1%
- 3TATHOD PRAKASHRAO SHANKARRAOJanata Dal · JD12,3351.7%
- 4GARAD ANIL DEVIDASABHS · ABHS4,0570.6%
- 5WAGH VITTHAL BHIKUJIIndependent · IND2,6610.4%
- 6JOSHI SHALIGRAM MOHANLALAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM2,0050.3%
- 7SONONE RAMPRABHU SURYABHANJIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3340.2%
- 8HIRALAKAR RAMESH RAMBHAUIndependent · IND7830.1%
- 9BHAI RAJNIKANTIndependent · IND3650.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- RPIflipped
- RPI–BJP swing
- +5.9%
- RPI share
- 33.2% → 50.6%
- BJP share
- 34.6% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- 59.4% → 64.6%