Constituency
36. Keshod
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-KESHOD
BJP 60.2%won by 24.8%INC 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.2% to 24.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.6% of the vote between them, up from 85.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
68,272
Margin
16,954
24.83%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1RATHOD SAMATBHAI AALABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP41,10160.2%
- 2DHULA HAMIRBHAI HADABHAIIndian National Congress · INC24,14735.4%
- 3PARMAR RAMESHBHAI ODHAVJIBHAIJanata Dal · JD1,3161.9%
- 4VANAVI DANABHAI BHIKABHAIAIRJP · AIRJP9401.4%
- 5MUCHHADIYA MADHABHAI VALABHAISamajwadi Party · SP5840.9%
- 6VEGADA MADHAVJI MEPABHAIIndependent · IND1840.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +15.7%
- BJP share
- 47.2% → 60.2%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- — → —