Constituency
286. Chandrapur
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CHANDRAPUR
INC 41.7%won by 0.4%BJP 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.7% to 0.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.0% between them, down from 93.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.0% to 64.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,24,338
Turnout
64.4%
Valid votes
7,88,538
Margin
2,837
0.36%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1Puglia Nareshkumar ChunnalalIndian National Congress · INC3,28,52241.7%
- 2Ahir Hansraj GangaramBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,25,68541.3%
- 3Potdukhe Shobha SudhakarNationalist Congress Party · NCP87,30411.1%
- 4Ganmukulwar Venkatesh RamayajiGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP39,4675.0%
- 5Dumbere Mahadeo PunajiIndependent · IND7,5601.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −18.3%
- INC share
- 55.9% → 41.7%
- BJP share
- 37.2% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- 66.5% → 64.4%