Constituency
78. Naroda
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-NARODA
BJP 68.4%won by 44.0%INC 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.0% to 44.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.8% of the vote between them, up from 79.4% — 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
1,70,001
Margin
74,854
44.03%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1KODNANI MAYABEN SURENDRABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,16,26968.4%
- 2PATEL DHIRUBHAI DEVRAJBHAIIndian National Congress · INC41,41524.4%
- 3PATEL JAGDISHBHAI CHIMANLALAIRJP · AIRJP11,6296.8%
- 4KHANVANI RADHAKISHAN UDDHAVDASIndependent · IND3490.2%
- 5VACHHANI RAMESHCHANDRA VIRJIBHAIIndependent · IND3390.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +11.0%
- BJP share
- 56.2% → 68.4%
- INC share
- 23.2% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —