Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Bikaner #2SC
Won
Balram Jakhar
INC Indian National CongressMargin
1,90,625 18.3 pp
votes
over Mahendrasingh Bhati (BJP)
The contest
Electors16,42,091
Votes polled10,39,717
Turnout63.3%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors8.89 L54.1% of electorate
Female electors7.53 L45.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
848females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balram Jakhar | INC | 5,60,257 | 53.90% | |
| 2 | Mahendrasingh Bhati | BJP | 3,69,632 | 35.60% | |
| 3 | Dilip Singh Marwal | BSP | 39,377 | 3.80% | |
| 4 | Shopat Singh Makkasar | CPIM | 29,390 | 2.80% | |
| 5 | Rakesh | IND | 11,077 | 1.10% | |
| 6 | Nemichand Meghwal | IND | 5,485 | 0.50% | |
| 7 | Ram Jeewan Vyas | IND | 2,533 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Shyamlal | SP | 2,516 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Ahmed Hasan | IND | 1,149 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Ashadevi Kilawat Chouhan | IND | 963 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Laxman Ram Meghwal | IND | 811 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 16,527, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 1,023,190 · NOTA n/a · published 1,039,717 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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- 2026-09-12