Constituency
170. Surat City East
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1995
GJ-SURAT-CITY-EAST
BJP 45.4%won by 26.8%BSP 18.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 50.6% to 26.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 18.6% — it did not contest here in 1990.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.0% between them, down from 86.1% — the field split more ways.
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
83,470
Margin
22,377
26.81%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1KHASI GULABDAS NAGINDASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,89045.4%
- 2HAJI MEHMOODBHAI JAHIRUDDIN PARDEWALABahujan Samaj Party · BSP15,51318.6%
- 3KAPADIA MADANLAL (JAMBAZ)Independent · IND13,77316.5%
- 4PATHAN SAHEBKHAN VAZIRKHANIndian National Congress · INC10,10012.1%
- 5KANTAWALA SARADCHANDRA GULABCHANDJanata Dal · JD3,3384.0%
- 6SHENMARE VIJAY NAMDEVCommunist Party of India · CPI7900.9%
- 7DEVRE YUJRAJ DAMUIndependent · IND5920.7%
- 8BHARUCHA PRAVINCHAND THAKORDASIndependent · IND4850.6%
- 9AAHIRE HAMABHAI BHAYABHAIDDP · DDP2000.2%
- 10SALEH YUSUFBHAI ADAMJIIndependent · IND1850.2%
- 11PATHAN RASIDKHAN MUSAKHANIndependent · IND1630.2%
- 12CHALIAWALA BHARATKUMAR BALVANTLALIndependent · IND1530.2%
- 13NIRMAL GOHILSJPR · SJPR1060.1%
- 14PATHAN AHMEDKHAN PIRKHANIndependent · IND960.1%
- 15NAIK INDUBEN GHELUBHAIIndependent · IND860.1%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −41.6%
- BJP share
- 68.4% → 45.4%
- BSP share
- 0.0% → 18.6%
- Turnout
- — → —