Constituency
38. Somnath
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-SOMNATH
BJP 41.0%won by 18.2%INC 22.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 18.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 25.6% to 41.0% of the vote here (+15.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.9% between them, down from 69.1% — 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
1,10,128
Margin
20,045
18.20%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJP- 1GOHEL CHUNILAL KANJIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,18741.0%
- 2PANJA NUSARAT ALIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC25,14222.8%
- 3CHUDASAMA HIRA RAMAIndependent · IND20,34818.5%
- 4BARAD JASABHAI BHANABHAIAIRJP · AIRJP19,45117.7%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +30.0%
- BJP share
- 25.6% → 41.0%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 22.8%
- Turnout
- — → —