Constituency
114. Chandigarh
Community mirrorChandigarh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CHANDIGARH
INC 47.0%won by 1.9%BJP 45.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.7% to 47.0% of the vote here (+8.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.9% to 48.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,85,006
Turnout
48.3%
Valid votes
2,82,816
Margin
5,449
1.93%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1Pawan Kumar BansalIndian National Congress · INC1,32,92447.0%
- 2Krishan Lal SharmaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,27,47545.1%
- 3Mata Ram DhimanBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,7812.8%
- 4Manphool SinghSamajwadi Party · SP4,8531.7%
- 5Harsharan SinghIndependent · IND3,2511.1%
- 6Ram Pal HansIndependent · IND2,1360.8%
- 7Gurnam Singh SidhuIndependent · IND9750.3%
- 8Ravi ParkashIndependent · IND5490.2%
- 9Rajander ShrivastavaIndependent · IND5270.2%
- 10Dilbagh SinghAJBP · AJBP4720.2%
- 11S.M.BhattiIndependent · IND4360.2%
- 12Palac ShriIndependent · IND4300.2%
- 13Bimla SapnaBSPA · BSPA4110.1%
- 14Kartar Singh HothiIndependent · IND2460.1%
- 15Inderjit GuptaIndependent · IND1770.1%
- 16Gurvinder Kaur SodhiIndependent · IND1730.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +5.6%
- INC share
- 38.7% → 47.0%
- BJP share
- 42.4% → 45.1%
- Turnout
- 53.2% → 48.3%