Constituency
3. Bhuj
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-BHUJ
BJP 52.3%won by 24.4%INC 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.4% to 24.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.2% between them, down from 93.3% — 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
90,650
Margin
22,119
24.40%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1ZAVERI MUKESH BABULALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,43152.3%
- 2CHAD RUPABHAI RAMJIIndian National Congress · INC25,31227.9%
- 3PRUTHVIRAJSINH MAHENDRASINH JADEJAAIRJP · AIRJP16,32418.0%
- 4RAMJI VERSHI BHANUSHALIJanata Dal · JD7330.8%
- 5KHIMJI JAKHU GARVARPI · RPI5370.6%
- 6UMARKHAN HASAMKHAN PATHANIndependent · IND3130.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +18.0%
- BJP share
- 49.8% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —