Constituency
92. Chanasma
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-CHANASMA
BJP 41.1%won by 7.5%INC 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.9% to 7.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.8% of the vote between them, up from 61.7% — a tighter two-way 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
84,195
Margin
6,302
7.49%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1ARVIND T. PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP34,62041.1%
- 2DESAI MALJIBHAI DEVJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC28,31833.6%
- 3DARBAR RAJENDRASINH UDESANGAIRJP · AIRJP20,25124.1%
- 4PATEL KAMLESHBHAI BALDEVBHAISamajwadi Party · SP6370.8%
- 5KANUBHA NATVARSINH ZALAIndependent · IND2410.3%
- 6PATEL RAMESHBHAI MOHANLALIndependent · IND1280.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −4.4%
- BJP share
- 36.8% → 41.1%
- INC share
- 24.9% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- — → —