Constituency
285. Chimur
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CHIMUR
BJP 40.5%won by 9.4%RPI 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: RPI (RPI) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.4%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 47.2% to 40.5% of the vote here (−6.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.6% between them, down from 94.6% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
10,13,322
Turnout
73.2%
Valid votes
7,41,450
Margin
70,040
9.45%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1Diwathe Namdeo HarbajiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,00,60140.5%
- 2Kawade Jogendra LaxmanRPI · RPI2,30,56131.1%
- 3Patel Prafulbhai ManoharbhaiNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,47,32219.9%
- 4Dr Shiwarkar Anil LaxmanIndependent · IND37,1135.0%
- 5Gajabe Sudhakar MarotraoIndependent · IND15,5162.1%
- 6Gadmade Shriram JairamIndependent · IND5,8740.8%
- 7Motghare Sanjay GopalBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,4630.6%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RPI
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RPI swing
- +9.7%
- BJP share
- 47.2% → 40.5%
- RPI share
- 47.5% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- 72.9% → 73.2%