Constituency
305. Karad
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-KARAD
NCP 61.1%won by 27.5%SHS 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedNationalist Congress Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.8% to 27.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Shiv Sena (SHS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.7% of the vote between them, up from 78.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 10.5% to 60.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,81,744
Turnout
60.5%
Valid votes
7,14,523
Margin
1,96,730
27.53%
Candidates
5 contested · winner NCP- 1PATIL SHRINIWAS DADASAHEBNationalist Congress Party · NCP4,36,73261.1%
- 2MANKUMARE VASANT DNYANDEVShiv Sena · SHS2,40,00233.6%
- 3ADV. KAMBLE PRABHAKAR MANSINGBahujan Samaj Party · BSP17,3612.4%
- 4ANANDRAO TUKARAM THORATIndependent · IND12,0401.7%
- 5JADHAV BALIKRISHNA ALIAS BALASAHEB BHIMRAORSPS · RSPS8,3881.2%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- NCP
- Winner now
- NCP
- NCP–SHS swing
- +0.4%
- NCP share
- 47.8% → 61.1%
- SHS share
- 20.6% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- 70.9% → 60.5%