Constituency
64. Sarkhej
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-SARKHEJ
BJP 69.8%won by 47.8%INC 22.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
2,77,016
Margin
1,32,477
47.82%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1SHAH AMIT ANILCHANDRA (AMIT SHAH)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,93,37369.8%
- 2PATEL PRAMUKHBHAI KANUBHAIIndian National Congress · INC60,89622.0%
- 3PATEL DIPTIBEN VIJAYKUMARAIRJP · AIRJP19,2376.9%
- 4YADAV MANILAL SITARAMSamajwadi Party · SP1,1330.4%
- 5BHARWAD GOPALBHAI MALABHAIIndependent · IND5960.2%
- 6PANCHAL RUPESHBHAI NANUBHAIIndependent · IND5480.2%
- 7SHAIKH ROSANBEN MOHAMED RAMZANIndependent · IND5230.2%
- 8RAMAJI NAGARJI THAKORIndependent · IND3980.1%
- 9BRAHMBHATT SANJAY AMARKUMARIndependent · IND3120.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +7.3%
- BJP share
- 61.8% → 69.8%
- INC share
- 21.3% → 22.0%
- Turnout
- — → —