Constituency
73. Rakhial
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-RAKHIAL
BJP 49.1%won by 18.5%INC 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.5% to 18.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.7% of the vote between them, up from 64.8% — a tighter two-way 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
90,037
Margin
16,637
18.48%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1JHADFIYA GORDHANBHAI P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP44,19649.1%
- 2PATEL HIMMATSINH P.Indian National Congress · INC27,55930.6%
- 3KOTHIYA KANUBHAI B.AIRJP · AIRJP9,59110.7%
- 4PATHAN TAUFIKKHAN B.Janata Dal · JD7,9838.9%
- 5RATHOD BUDDHISAGAR D.RPI · RPI2030.2%
- 6M.R.YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP1980.2%
- 7PATEL JITENDRAKUMAR J.Independent · IND1480.2%
- 8RAJPUT RAMPRAKASHSING K.Independent · IND1190.1%
- 9HARMAR JAYANAND D.Independent · IND400.0%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −6.0%
- BJP share
- 44.6% → 49.1%
- INC share
- 20.2% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- — → —