Constituency
8. Wadhwan
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-WADHWAN
BJP 53.2%won by 20.8%INC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.4% to 20.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.6% of the vote between them, up from 80.5% — a tighter two-way 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
87,657
Margin
18,207
20.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJP- 1DHANRAJBHAI KELABharatiya Janata Party · BJP46,61753.2%
- 2DAVE NANDKISHOR TRAMBAKLALIndian National Congress · INC28,41032.4%
- 3ZALA RANJITSINH JILUBHAAIRJP · AIRJP11,83613.5%
- 4DILIP DULERAIndependent · IND7940.9%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +15.4%
- BJP share
- 43.0% → 53.2%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —