Constituency
47. Kodinar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-KODINAR
BJP 52.1%won by 25.0%INC 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.1% to 25.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.2% between them, down from 95.6% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
77,729
Margin
19,449
25.02%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SOLANKI DINUBHAI BOGHABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,48752.1%
- 2ZALA PRAVINBHAI LAXMANBHAIIndian National Congress · INC21,03827.1%
- 3BARAD DHIRSINHBHAI KARSHANBHAIIndependent · IND9,36912.1%
- 4DAHIMA RAISINH NATHUBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP5,1856.7%
- 5VADHEL DEVSIBHAI SIDIBHAIIndependent · IND7661.0%
- 6DAVE NANDLAL POPATLALIndependent · IND6220.8%
- 7NAKVI ABRARHUSAIN BADASAHEBIndependent · IND2620.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +15.9%
- BJP share
- 52.4% → 52.1%
- INC share
- 43.3% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —