Constituency
46. Dhari
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-DHARI
BJP 45.8%won by 20.0%INC 25.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 20.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 21.9% to 45.8% of the vote here (+23.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.6% of the vote between them, up from 53.4% — 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
68,682
Margin
13,752
20.02%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1BALUBHAI TANTIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,45045.8%
- 2KRISHNAKANT VAKHARIAIndian National Congress · INC17,69825.8%
- 3J.V.KAKADIAIndependent · IND9,16713.3%
- 4BHAGUBHAI PATNIIndependent · IND3,7245.4%
- 5CHANDRAKANT POPATBHAI SOJITRAJanata Dal · JD3,3014.8%
- 6PARSHOTAMBHAI SARDHARAAIRJP · AIRJP2,2653.3%
- 7BAVANJI MADHABHAI SATANIIndependent · IND9371.4%
- 8BHIKHUBHAI BHURABHAI KOTHIYAIndependent · IND1400.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +29.6%
- BJP share
- 21.9% → 45.8%
- INC share
- 31.5% → 25.8%
- Turnout
- — → —