Constituency
44. Lathi
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-LATHI
BJP 45.1%won by 16.1%IND 29.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.9% to 16.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.0% — it polled just 0.8% in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.2% between them, down from 91.3% — 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
62,221
Margin
10,004
16.08%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1BHADANI BECHARBHAI VIRJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,07345.1%
- 2KHODIDAS THAKKARIndependent · IND18,06929.0%
- 3THAKARSHIBHAI KANJIBHAI METALIYAIndian National Congress · INC10,34316.6%
- 4DR.ARVINDBHAI VITHALBHAI KOTHIYAAIRJP · AIRJP4,4907.2%
- 5CHAVDA BHURABHAI BHAGVANBHAIIndependent · IND6411.0%
- 6BHADANI CHATURBHAI MANEKLALJanata Dal · JD4390.7%
- 7BHADANI MAGANBHAI BAVBHAIIndependent · IND1660.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −35.2%
- BJP share
- 52.1% → 45.1%
- IND share
- 0.8% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- — → —