Election
Constituency

89. Sidhpur

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 1998

GJ-SIDHPUR

BJP 42.4%won by 5.8%INC 36.6%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.3% to 5.8%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.0% between them, down from 97.8% — the field split more ways.

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

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
91,075
Margin
5,257
5.77%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJPINC swing
−25.5%
BJP share
64.6% 42.4%
INC share
33.3% 36.6%
Turnout