Constituency
72. Asarwa
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-ASARWA
BJP 40.6%won by 0.8%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.4% to 0.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 958 votes (0.84%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
1,13,579
Margin
958
0.84%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1PATEL AMRISHKUMAR GOVINDLALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP46,11240.6%
- 2PRABODH RAVALIndian National Congress · INC45,15439.8%
- 3PATNI LAXMANBHAI KALIDASAIRJP · AIRJP19,82017.5%
- 4PATEL RAMBHAI UKABHAIIndependent · IND6700.6%
- 5PATEL BHARATBHAI K.Bahujan Samaj Party · BSP6200.5%
- 6YADAV RAJENDRARAM ASHRESamajwadi Party · SP3840.3%
- 7RUPERA CHANDRAKANT DURLABHJI (ADVOCATE)Communist Party of India · CPI3660.3%
- 8PATEL NILESHKUMAR NATHALALABJS · ABJS2240.2%
- 9YADAV SURESH RAMTIRATHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1640.1%
- 10PATEL RAJESHBHAI RAGHUNATHBHAIIndependent · IND650.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −8.6%
- BJP share
- 45.5% → 40.6%
- INC share
- 36.1% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —