Constituency
49. Botad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-BOTAD
BJP 50.5%won by 10.1%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 10.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 29.3% to 50.5% of the vote here (+21.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 62.5% — 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
89,311
Margin
8,992
10.07%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1SAURABH PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,13850.5%
- 2MER KANJIBHAI BHURABHAIIndian National Congress · INC36,14640.5%
- 3BOTADARA SHANTIBHAI JIVABHAI (SATWARA)AIRJP · AIRJP6,3967.2%
- 4MAKWANA MERUBHAI LAGHRABHAIIndependent · IND4320.5%
- 5JADAVANI VINODKUMAR HARIBHAIIndependent · IND3130.4%
- 6KARIMSHETH H. RAVANIIndependent · IND2390.3%
- 7PARMAR GAMBHIRSINH AMARSINHSamajwadi Party · SP2320.3%
- 8NAVADIYA MANJIBHAI JIVABHAIRPI · RPI2040.2%
- 9JANGAD ABUBAKAR RAHIMBHAIIndependent · IND1230.1%
- 10SHAH KANTILAL MANSUKHLALIndependent · IND880.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +13.9%
- BJP share
- 29.3% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 33.1% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —