Constituency
299. Ahmednagar
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-AHMEDNAGAR
SHS 49.3%won by 2.2%INC 47.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiv Sena (SHS), which now leads by 2.2%.
- SHS vote shareSHS went from 29.5% to 49.3% of the vote here (+19.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.5% of the vote between them, up from 67.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.2% to 58.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,25,233
Turnout
58.2%
Valid votes
6,54,846
Margin
14,245
2.18%
Candidates
7 contested · winner SHS- 1E.V. ALIAS BALASAHEB VIKHE PATILShiv Sena · SHS3,23,02449.3%
- 2MARUTI DEVRAM ALIAS DADA PATIL SHELKEIndian National Congress · INC3,08,77947.2%
- 3NAGWADE RAMESH BALASAHEBCommunist Party of India · CPI10,0971.5%
- 4ATHARE ANKUSHIndependent · IND6,8291.0%
- 5JADHAV VITHOBA HIRAJIMRC · MRC3,8460.6%
- 6ASHOK GAIKWADIndependent · IND1,6240.2%
- 7SHAIKH RIYAJODDIN FAZALODDINIndependent · IND6470.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SHSflipped
- SHS–INC swing
- +11.1%
- SHS share
- 29.5% → 49.3%
- INC share
- 38.4% → 47.2%
- Turnout
- 50.0% → 58.2%