Constituency
350. Ganganagar
Community mirrorRajasthan · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-GANGANAGAR
INC 46.6%won by 5.9%BJP 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.7% to 46.6% of the vote here (+11.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.2% of the vote between them, up from 80.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 16.8% to 60.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,96,723
Turnout
60.1%
Valid votes
7,19,019
Margin
42,761
5.95%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1ENG. SHANKAR PANNUIndian National Congress · INC3,35,05246.6%
- 2NIHAL CHANDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,92,29140.7%
- 3SHASHI DUTTAJanata Dal · JD33,1934.6%
- 4RAWATARAMCommunist Party of India · CPI27,9523.9%
- 5DHARAMPAL KATARIABahujan Samaj Party · BSP27,5963.8%
- 6DULICHANDShiv Sena · SHS2,0260.3%
- 7SARABATIIndependent · IND9090.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +16.8%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 46.6%
- BJP share
- 45.6% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- 43.3% → 60.1%