Constituency
30. Khambhalia
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-KHAMBHALIA
BJP 37.3%won by 18.1%INC 19.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 18.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.4% between them, down from 81.8% — 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
61,836
Margin
11,217
18.14%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAVDA KARU NARANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP23,03937.3%
- 2DR. SAJAN JIVABHAI VAROTARIAIndian National Congress · INC11,82219.1%
- 3ASHOKBHAI HARIDAS LALJanata Dal · JD9,59515.5%
- 4BHAN RAMBHAI NATHABHAIIndependent · IND8,94914.5%
- 5NAKUM JAYANTIBHAI DAYABHAIIndependent · IND5,7189.2%
- 6BODAR RAJASI RANMALIndependent · IND9951.6%
- 7MANDORA HASHMUKH MEGHJIIndependent · IND2600.4%
- 8DATTANI NATVARLAL MAGANLALIndependent · IND2470.4%
- 9KHUNTI BHOJABHAI KANABHAIIndependent · IND2330.4%
- 10GORANIA ARSI BHIMAIndependent · IND2220.4%
- 11NAKUM RAVJIBHAI MANJIBHAIIndependent · IND1830.3%
- 12DAVE NALINKANT NARANDASIndependent · IND1430.2%
- 13JADEJA KIRTISINH PRATAPSANGIndependent · IND1420.2%
- 14CHETARIYA PITHA MALDEIndependent · IND1360.2%
- 15PARMAR PREMJI LAKHANBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP1210.2%
- 16RAMDATTI MASANGAR DHANIGARIndependent · IND310.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +16.3%
- BJP share
- 41.8% → 37.3%
- INC share
- 40.0% → 19.1%
- Turnout
- — → —