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31. Dwarka

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 1998

GJ-DWARKA

IND 49.1%won by 7.0%BJP 42.1%

What changed here

Derived

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.8% to 7.0%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.3% of the vote between them, up from 55.5% — 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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Valid votes
74,531
Margin
5,221
7.01%

Candidates

8 contested · winner IND
  1. 1MANEK PABUBHA VIRAMBHAIndependent · IND36,61849.1%
  2. 2GOJIYA VAJSI DEVABHAI (V.D.GOJIYA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,39742.1%
  3. 3BOLIM HAMIR HASAMIndependent · IND3,2934.4%
  4. 4MAJITHIYA RAMANBHAI SUNDARBHAISamajwadi Party · SP8611.2%
  5. 5HATHIYA GANGABHAI MUNJABHAIIndependent · IND8491.1%
  6. 6JADEJA VAJUBHA DOLATSINHIndependent · IND6050.8%
  7. 7BAGADA HIRABHAI LAKHABHAIRPI · RPI4660.6%
  8. 8PARMAR JETABHAI SAVJIBHAIIndependent · IND4420.6%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
IND
IND–BJP swing
−6.9%
IND share
33.6% → 49.1%
BJP share
19.7% → 42.1%
Turnout
— → —
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