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Constituency

64. Sarkhej

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 1998

GJ-SARKHEJ

BJP 69.8%won by 47.8%INC 22.0%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 40.5% to 47.8%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 83.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
2,77,016
Margin
1,32,477
47.82%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJPINC swing
+7.3%
BJP share
61.8% 69.8%
INC share
21.3% 22.0%
Turnout