Constituency
351. Bikaner
Community mirrorRajasthan · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BIKANER
INC 54.8%won by 18.6%BJP 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.4% to 54.8% of the vote here (+14.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.9% of the vote between them, up from 85.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 16.7% to 62.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
16,42,091
Turnout
62.3%
Valid votes
10,23,190
Margin
1,90,625
18.63%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1BALRAM JAKHARIndian National Congress · INC5,60,25754.8%
- 2MAHENDRASINGH BHATIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,69,63236.1%
- 3DILIP SINGH MARWALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP39,3773.8%
- 4SHOPAT SINGH MAKKASARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,3902.9%
- 5RAKESHIndependent · IND11,0771.1%
- 6NEMICHAND MEGHWALIndependent · IND5,4850.5%
- 7RAM JEEWAN VYASIndependent · IND2,5330.2%
- 8SHYAMLALSamajwadi Party · SP2,5160.2%
- 9AHMED HASANIndependent · IND1,1490.1%
- 10ASHADEVI KILAWAT CHOUHANIndependent · IND9630.1%
- 11LAXMAN RAM MEGHWALIndependent · IND8110.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +22.8%
- INC share
- 40.4% → 54.8%
- BJP share
- 44.6% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- 45.6% → 62.3%