Constituency
55. Talaja
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-TALAJA
BJP 49.8%won by 31.9%INC 17.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.7% to 31.9%.
- 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
59,912
Margin
19,113
31.90%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1GOHIL SHEEVABHAI JERAMBHAI (SHEEVABHAI GOHIL)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,86349.8%
- 2GOHIL CHANDUBHAI GIGABHAIIndian National Congress · INC10,75017.9%
- 3BHAMR GIGA JIVABHAIIndependent · IND9,31115.5%
- 4BARIYA KHIMABHAI BHADABHAIIndependent · IND6,62111.1%
- 5MAKWANA MEGHAJIBHAI MAVJIBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP2,5614.3%
- 6BALAR MANJIBHAI PARSOTTAMBHAI (M.P.BALARIndependent · IND8061.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +13.2%
- BJP share
- 43.5% → 49.8%
- INC share
- 24.8% → 17.9%
- Turnout
- — → —