Constituency
83. Mehsana
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-MEHSANA
BJP 40.9%won by 2.9%INC 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.1% to 2.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 91.5% — the field split more ways.
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
1,05,281
Margin
3,097
2.94%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1KHODABHAI N.PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,02640.9%
- 2SAGAR RAYAKAIndian National Congress · INC39,92937.9%
- 3THAKOR CHATURJI KHODAJIAIRJP · AIRJP12,75412.1%
- 4ANIL THAKARIndependent · IND3,3273.2%
- 5G.K.PRAJAPATIIndependent · IND2,8462.7%
- 6PATEL MANILAL GANESHDASJanata Dal · JD1,3741.3%
- 7CHAUDHARI DASHRATHBHAI SHANKARBHAIIndependent · IND4840.5%
- 8CHAUDHARI RAMESHBHAI KANJIBHAISamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP3740.4%
- 9PATEL NATVARLAL LILACHANDShiv Sena · SHS3740.4%
- 10PATEL MADHAVLAL RAMDASIndependent · IND3620.3%
- 11PATEL NATVARLAL TRIBHOVANDASIndependent · IND2760.3%
- 12THAKOR BABAJI MULAJIIndependent · IND1550.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +1.8%
- BJP share
- 46.3% → 40.9%
- INC share
- 45.2% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- — → —