Constituency
359. Bayana
Community mirrorRajasthan · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BAYANA
BJP 40.8%won by 0.8%INC 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.1% to 0.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.8% between them, down from 86.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 16.8% to 52.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,53,793
Turnout
52.6%
Valid votes
5,54,147
Margin
4,550
0.82%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1GANGARAM KOLIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,26,24940.8%
- 2JAGANNATH PAHADIAIndian National Congress · INC2,21,69940.0%
- 3ROHITASHWA KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP54,5389.8%
- 4THAN SINGH JATAVJanata Dal · JD33,2626.0%
- 5LAKHAN SINGH MAURYABKKGP · BKKGP10,1631.8%
- 6SHYAMLAL CHHADIRJVP · RJVP2,7040.5%
- 7HARISH CHANDRA KHATIKSamajwadi Party · SP2,4640.4%
- 8GHANSHYAM BRIJVASIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,3430.2%
- 9LAKHMI CHANDIndependent · IND1,1240.2%
- 10SRICHAND KOLIIndependent · IND6010.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −19.3%
- BJP share
- 53.5% → 40.8%
- INC share
- 33.4% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- 35.8% → 52.6%