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27. Kalawad

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 1998

GJ-KALAWAD

BJP 61.6%won by 35.6%AIRJP 26.0%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 45.8% to 35.6%.

  • New challengerAIRJP (AIRJP) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1995.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.6% of the vote between them, up from 79.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
65,642
Margin
23,398
35.64%

Candidates

5 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1FALDU RANCHHOD CHANABHAI (R.C.FALDU)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,45061.6%
  2. 2PATEL KANTABEN RAGHAVJIBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP17,05226.0%
  3. 3MENPARA RUDABHAI LAVJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC6,56710.0%
  4. 4KANTIBHAI BABULAL GADHVIJanata Dal · JD1,2321.9%
  5. 5DEVGANA MOHANBHAI MEGHJIBHAIIndependent · IND3410.5%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–AIRJP swing
−27.2%
BJP share
62.8% → 61.6%
AIRJP share
0.0% → 26.0%
Turnout
— → —
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