Analysis · competitiveness

How close was it?

Lok Sabha nationally, 1999

Closest contest

0.02%

Ghatampur · BSP

Biggest landslide

52.9%

Aska · BJD

Decided by under 1%

of 543 contests

Decided by under 5%

190

35.0% of contests

Contests

543

1999 · national

[01]Closest contests

Smallest winning margin first

0.02%
GhatampurBahujan Samaj PartyPyare Lal Sankhwar · Uttar Pradesh
0.1%
TenkasiAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamMurugesan,s. · Tamil Nadu
0.18%
BarhJanata Dal (United)Nitish Kumar · Bihar
0.2%
FatehpurBharatiya Janata PartyAshok Patel · Uttar Pradesh
0.2%
GurdaspurBharatiya Janata PartyVinod Khanna · Punjab
0.2%
Chhota UdaipurBharatiya Janata PartyRamsinh Rathawa · Gujarat
0.3%
ChandrapurIndian National CongressPuglia Nareshkumar Chunnalal · Maharashtra
0.31%
BastiBharatiya Janata PartyShriram Chauhan · Uttar Pradesh
0.34%
ArariaRashtriya Janata DalSukdeo Paswan · Bihar
0.35%
SheoharRashtriya Janata DalMd Anwarul Haque · Bihar

[02]Biggest landslides

Largest winning margin first

52.9%
AskaBiju Janata DalNaveen Patnaik · Odisha
48.5%
NagalandIndian National CongressK. Asungba Sangtam · Nagaland
48.07%
AmethiIndian National CongressSonia Gandhi · Uttar Pradesh
41.79%
RanchiBharatiya Janata PartyRam Tahal Choudhary · Bihar
40.4%
SonepatBharatiya Janata PartyKishan Singh Sangwan · Haryana
39.6%
SuratBharatiya Janata PartyKashiram Rana · Gujarat
38.8%
TuraNationalist Congress PartyPurno Agitok Sangma · Meghalaya
37.4%
BhubaneswarBiju Janata DalPrasanna Kumar Patasani · Odisha
36.41%
PurneaIndependentRajesh Ranjan · Bihar
36.2%
SrinagarJammu & Kashmir National ConferenceOmer Abdullah · Jammu and Kashmir

[03]Seats by winning margin

How the contests split by how close they were

Under 1% 315.7%

1-5% 15929.3%

5-10% 13625.0%

10-20% 14927.4%

20%+ 6812.5%

SourceWinning margins from Election Commission constituency-wise results, 1999 Lok Sabha · margins are winner minus runner-up as a share of votes polled