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294. Beed

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Maharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-BEED

BJP 46.4%won by 0.9%INC 45.5%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.9% to 0.9%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.9% of the vote between them, up from 77.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 6,103 votes (0.94%) — among the closest results anywhere.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
11,70,371
Turnout
55.2%
Valid votes
6,46,564
Margin
6,103
0.94%

Candidates

7 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1JAISINGRAO GAIKWAD PATILBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,00,30746.4%
  2. 2ASHOK PATILIndian National Congress · INC2,94,20445.5%
  3. 3B.N.ALIAS TATYASAHEB DESHMUKHPWPI · PWPI21,2563.3%
  4. 4AWAD EKNATHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP15,6662.4%
  5. 5GURAV KALYANIndependent · IND7,6421.2%
  6. 6KARAD RAMESH KASHIRAMIndependent · IND5,1550.8%
  7. 7GHADGE MANOHARIndependent · IND2,3340.4%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
−8.0%
BJP share
43.4% → 46.4%
INC share
34.5% → 45.5%
Turnout
56.3% → 55.2%
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