Constituency
6. Rapar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-RAPAR
BJP 42.6%won by 11.1%AIRJP 31.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.2% to 11.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAIRJP (AIRJP) finished second with 31.5% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.0% between them, down from 90.8% — 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
70,096
Margin
7,814
11.15%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1DHIRUBHAI SWARUPCHAND SHAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,86042.6%
- 2GADA BABULAL MEGHAJI SHAHAIRJP · AIRJP22,04631.5%
- 3JADEJA NAVALSINH MOHABATSINHIndian National Congress · INC15,77522.5%
- 4SODHA VELUBHA SARUPSANGJIJanata Dal · JD1,2471.8%
- 5GARIYA HARKHA BHIMAIndependent · IND4870.7%
- 6JOSHI DURGASHANKAR BABULALIndependent · IND3770.5%
- 7PRAJAPTI ARJANBHAI JESHANGHIndependent · IND3040.4%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AIRJP swing
- −35.9%
- BJP share
- 47.0% → 42.6%
- AIRJP share
- 0.0% → 31.5%
- Turnout
- — → —