Constituency
57. Bhavnagar North
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1995
GJ-BHAVNAGAR-NORTH
BJP 43.8%won by 16.1%CPM 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.7% to 16.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.5% between them, down from 81.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
96,478
Margin
15,506
16.07%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1MAHENDRA TRIVEDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,24243.8%
- 2ARUN MEHTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM26,73627.7%
- 3MANUBHAI VYASIndian National Congress · INC22,18223.0%
- 4BARIYA PARSHOTTAMBHAI NARANBHAI (ADVOCATE)Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2872.4%
- 5MAKWANA GIRADHARBHAI SHIVAJIBHAIIndependent · IND7590.8%
- 6SHEKH SUGARABEN MAHMAD ZAKRIYACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4710.5%
- 7HUSEN HAMDARDIndependent · IND3650.4%
- 8MEHTA DILIPKUMAR BALKRISHNA (ADVOCATE)Independent · IND2530.3%
- 9PARMAR UDAYSINH VAGHJIBHAIIndependent · IND2420.3%
- 10USMANBHAI MANASURIIndependent · IND2240.2%
- 11BHATT KANAIALAL CHAKUBHAIDDP · DDP1630.2%
- 12KUKAREJA LEKHRAJMAL GOKALDASIndependent · IND1520.2%
- 13PATEL KAMLESH V.Independent · IND1430.1%
- 14DABHI RAGHAVANBHAI MEGHAJIBHAIIndependent · IND1400.1%
- 15SHEKH ABDUL VAHAB ABDUL RAJAKIndependent · IND1190.1%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–CPM swing
- +4.4%
- BJP share
- 46.4% → 43.8%
- CPM share
- 34.7% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —