Constituency
137. Matar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1995
GJ-MATAR
IND 60.4%won by 39.6%INC 20.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 39.6%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 6.1% to 60.4% of the vote here (+54.3%).
- Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,01,095
Margin
40,027
39.59%
Candidates
10 contested · winner IND- 1PARMAR MULRAJSINH MADHAVSINHIndependent · IND61,04360.4%
- 2DHIRUBHAI AMARSING CHAVDAIndian National Congress · INC21,01620.8%
- 3CHAVDA KHUMANSINH MELABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,29412.2%
- 4PATEL RAVJIBHAI SHAMALBHAIIndependent · IND4,4804.4%
- 5NAYANKUMAR ISHWARLAL THAKKARIndependent · IND1,1481.1%
- 6PARMAR HIRABHAI KESHAVBHAIIndependent · IND3330.3%
- 7CHAUHAN MOHANBHAI CHUNIBHAIIndependent · IND3190.3%
- 8PATEL BHARATKUMAR VISHNUBHAIDDP · DDP2040.2%
- 9RAJPUR GHANSHYAMBHAI SHANKARBHAI (PHOTAWALA)Independent · IND1290.1%
- 10VINUBHAI RAVJIBHAI PATELIndependent · IND1290.1%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +66.3%
- IND share
- 6.1% → 60.4%
- INC share
- 32.7% → 20.8%
- Turnout
- — → —