Constituency
354. Sikar
Community mirrorRajasthan · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-SIKAR
BJP 37.2%won by 5.2%INC 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 5.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.2% between them, down from 81.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 16.9% to 63.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,43,952
Turnout
63.4%
Valid votes
7,88,115
Margin
41,322
5.24%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1SUBHASH MAHARIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,93,50237.2%
- 2HARI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC2,52,18032.0%
- 3AMRA RAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,96,43224.9%
- 4CHATAR SINGHAIRJP · AIRJP20,2682.6%
- 5MANOHAR SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP11,5061.5%
- 6AJAY PALIndependent · IND6,0390.8%
- 7VINOD KUMAR YADAVIndependent · IND2,9620.4%
- 8DEVI SAHAIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,7610.4%
- 9RAM LALIndependent · IND1,4260.2%
- 10SHASHI KANTAJBP · AJBP1,0390.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +11.5%
- BJP share
- 37.4% → 37.2%
- INC share
- 43.7% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- 46.4% → 63.4%