Constituency
351. Bikaner
Community mirrorRajasthan · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-BIKANER
BJP 42.9%won by 3.4%INC 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.3% to 3.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.4% between them, down from 90.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 15.4% to 41.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,81,203
Turnout
41.3%
Valid votes
5,69,804
Margin
19,575
3.44%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1ARJUN RAM MEGHWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,44,53742.9%
- 2REWAT RAM PANWARIndian National Congress · INC2,24,96239.5%
- 3GOVIND RAM MEGHWALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP39,3066.9%
- 4PAWAN KUMAR DUGGALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM36,5556.4%
- 5LAXHMAN SINGHIndependent · IND7,7071.4%
- 6ADU RAM MEGHWALRJVP · RJVP7,1561.3%
- 7RATAN DEVI MEGHWALIndependent · IND2,9610.5%
- 8KUNDAN LAL VALMIKIIndependent · IND2,4440.4%
- 9KHEM CHAND NIMBHALIndependent · IND2,1350.4%
- 10BABU LAL KHANDASamajwadi Party · SP2,0410.4%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −1.9%
- BJP share
- 48.1% → 42.9%
- INC share
- 42.8% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- 56.7% → 41.3%