Constituency
270. Thane
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-THANE
SHS 43.2%won by 11.0%INC 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedShiv Sena held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.7% to 11.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.4% between them, down from 91.7% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
27,72,750
Turnout
32.7%
Valid votes
9,05,683
Margin
99,683
11.01%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SHS- 1Prakash ParanjpeShiv Sena · SHS3,91,44643.2%
- 2Nakul PatilIndian National Congress · INC2,91,76332.2%
- 3Prabhakar HegadeNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,77,25619.6%
- 4Wadhavinde Mahendru KeruIndependent · IND37,1454.1%
- 5Dr Madhukar Vitthalrao DekateBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,0730.9%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- SHS
- Winner now
- SHS
- SHS–INC swing
- −48.2%
- SHS share
- 59.2% → 43.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 32.5% → 32.7%