Constituency
286. Chandrapur
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-CHANDRAPUR
INC 55.9%won by 18.7%BJP 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 21.2% to 55.9% of the vote here (+34.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.2% of the vote between them, up from 55.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.4% to 66.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,10,757
Turnout
66.5%
Valid votes
8,04,528
Margin
1,50,355
18.69%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1PUGLIA NARESHKUMAR CHUNNALALIndian National Congress · INC4,50,00755.9%
- 2AHIR HANSRAJ GANGARAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,99,65237.2%
- 3ADV. MOGRE VIJAY GANPATRAOJanata Dal · JD18,4952.3%
- 4DEOTALE CHANDRASHEKHAR DIGAMBARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,0151.7%
- 5DHOTE PARSHURAM HARISHCHANDRAIndependent · IND8,5821.1%
- 6RAUT RAMESHCHANDRA NARAYANIndependent · IND4,9450.6%
- 7GADPALLIWAR NAMDEORAO MALANNAJIABHS · ABHS3,5410.4%
- 8MADAVI SHYAMKANT MOTIRAMGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP2,7100.3%
- 9TAWADE KRUSHNAJI MAROTIIndependent · IND1,0410.1%
- 10RAIPURO SATYOSHIL NILKANTHIndependent · IND8470.1%
- 11ATRAM BHUJANGRAO KIRTIMANTRAOIndependent · IND6930.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +31.6%
- INC share
- 21.2% → 55.9%
- BJP share
- 34.1% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- 63.1% → 66.5%