Constituency
287. Wardha
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-WARDHA
INC 38.3%won by 1.1%BJP 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.2% to 1.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.5% between them, down from 84.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 60.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,79,969
Turnout
60.3%
Valid votes
6,51,394
Margin
7,062
1.08%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1Prabha RaoIndian National Congress · INC2,49,56438.3%
- 2Suresh Ganpatrao WaghmareBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,42,50237.2%
- 3Datta MegheNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,52,85623.5%
- 4Chidam Narayanrao RamjiGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP6,4721.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −11.2%
- INC share
- 48.5% → 38.3%
- BJP share
- 36.2% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- 63.8% → 60.3%