Constituency
279. Akola
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-AKOLA
BJP 42.6%won by 14.5%INC 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BBM (BBM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 14.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 39.2% to 42.6% of the vote here (+3.4%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 28.1% — it did not contest here in 1999.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.7% between them, down from 79.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,71,055
Turnout
57.9%
Valid votes
7,35,372
Margin
1,06,371
14.46%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1DHOTRE SANJAY SHAMRAOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,13,32342.6%
- 2LAXMANRAO TAYADEIndian National Congress · INC2,06,95228.1%
- 3AMBEDKAR PRAKASH YASHWANTBBM · BBM1,87,20225.5%
- 4TAYADE VISHRAM NATTHUJIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,9511.4%
- 5RAJA MOTIRAMJI SHAMBHARKARIndependent · IND8,6281.2%
- 6JOSHI SHALIGRAM MOHANLALAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM5,7560.8%
- 7SHAIKH MUKIM AHEMAD ABDUL RASHIDSamajwadi Party · SP3,5600.5%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BBM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- −24.8%
- BJP share
- 39.2% → 42.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- 58.7% → 57.9%