Constituency
70. Shahpur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-SHAHPUR
BJP 54.6%won by 17.6%INC 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.1% to 17.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 70.2% — a tighter two-way 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
52,503
Margin
9,218
17.56%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1KAUSHIKKUMAR JAMNADAS PATEL (KAUSHIK PATEL)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,67854.6%
- 2SHAH JITENDRAKUMAR C.Indian National Congress · INC19,46037.1%
- 3BHAGWATIPRASAD C. PANCHALAIRJP · AIRJP3,6016.9%
- 4BUKHARI ALTAFHUSAN TAVAKKALAHIndependent · IND4930.9%
- 5PATEL BHARATBHAI S.Samajwadi Party · SP1600.3%
- 6A.K.PATHANLSWP · LSWP810.2%
- 7AJMERI ADAMBHAI S.Independent · IND300.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −0.5%
- BJP share
- 44.1% → 54.6%
- INC share
- 26.0% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → —