Election
Constituency

86. Visnagar

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 1998

GJ-VISNAGAR

BJP 29.5%won by 3.1%IND 26.5%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.5% to 3.1%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 26.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.5% — it polled just 0.8% in 1995.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.0% between them, down from 96.7% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,15,425
Margin
3,536
3.06%

Candidates

5 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1PATEL PRAHALADBHAI MOHANLAL (GOSA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP34,07529.5%
  2. 2PATEL BHOLABHAI CHATURBHAIIndependent · IND30,53926.5%
  3. 3THAKOR VARVAJI TALAJIAIRJP · AIRJP20,89418.1%
  4. 4KIRTIBHAI ISHWARLAL PATELIndependent · IND16,34214.2%
  5. 5PATHAN VAJIRKHAN BISMILLAKHANIndian National Congress · INC13,57511.8%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–IND swing
−51.7%
BJP share
55.6% → 29.5%
IND share
0.8% → 26.5%
Turnout
— → —
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