Constituency
52. Gauhati
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-GAUHATI
BJP 45.9%won by 9.0%INC 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 27.3% to 45.9% of the vote here (+18.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.9% of the vote between them, up from 76.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 19.2% to 61.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,54,869
Turnout
61.8%
Valid votes
8,37,428
Margin
75,238
8.98%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1Bijoya ChakravartyBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,84,77145.9%
- 2Bhubaneswar KalitaIndian National Congress · INC3,09,53337.0%
- 3Durga Das BoroAsom Gana Parishad · AGP1,19,03414.2%
- 4Suniti SonowalNationalist Congress Party · NCP13,2411.6%
- 5Biren RabhaIndependent · IND4,2930.5%
- 6Dr Phukan Chandra BoroIndependent · IND1,9870.2%
- 7Nawazis Ara BegumSamajwadi Party · SP1,9330.2%
- 8Jiten DekaIndependent · IND1,8220.2%
- 9Mrinal Kanti ChowdhuryAJBP · AJBP4810.1%
- 10Bhumidhar PathakIndependent · IND3330.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +31.2%
- BJP share
- 27.3% → 45.9%
- INC share
- 49.6% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- 42.6% → 61.8%