Constituency
84. Mansa
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-MANSA
BJP 39.8%won by 7.3%AIRJP 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.4% to 7.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAIRJP (AIRJP) finished second with 32.5% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.3% between them, down from 84.9% — 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
1,13,276
Margin
8,324
7.35%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1PATEL MANGALDAS MADHAVLALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,09639.8%
- 2CHAUDHARI HARIBHAI VELJIBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP36,77232.5%
- 3CHAVDA ISHWERSINH SHIVAJIIndian National Congress · INC30,38526.8%
- 4PATEL AMBALAL GANESHBHAIIndependent · IND3050.3%
- 5PATEL MAHENDRAKUMAR RAMABHAISamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2350.2%
- 6KADIA ATULKUMAR KHODIDASShiv Sena · SHS1900.2%
- 7MAKWANA KHODAJI VARVAJIIndependent · IND1680.1%
- 8THAKOR JAYANTIBHAI KARSANJIIndependent · IND1250.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AIRJP swing
- −39.3%
- BJP share
- 46.7% → 39.8%
- AIRJP share
- 0.0% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —