Constituency
297. Sholapur
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-SHOLAPUR
INC 47.5%won by 12.8%BJP 34.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.2% to 12.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.2% between them, down from 93.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,26,006
Turnout
58.8%
Valid votes
6,03,446
Margin
76,995
12.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1Shinde Sushilkumar SambhajiraoIndian National Congress · INC2,86,57847.5%
- 2Valyal Lingraj BalirayyaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,09,58334.7%
- 3Abdulpurkar Aralappa GangappaNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,02,80317.0%
- 4Sarvade Rahul VitthalraoBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2900.5%
- 5Adaki Babu VasantraoIndependent · IND1,1920.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −4.4%
- INC share
- 55.4% → 47.5%
- BJP share
- 38.2% → 34.7%
- Turnout
- 60.2% → 58.8%