Constituency
98. Deesa
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-DEESA
BJP 45.5%won by 9.3%INC 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.0% to 9.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,12,809
Margin
10,451
9.26%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1GORDHANJI GIGAJI MALIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP51,34245.5%
- 2RABARI GOVABHAI HAMIRABHAIIndian National Congress · INC40,89136.2%
- 3NANUBHAI SHANTILAL SHAHAIRJP · AIRJP17,07615.1%
- 4MESRA DHARJI MERUJIIndependent · IND1,8841.7%
- 5KOITIA HASMUKHBHAI UMEDBHAIIndependent · IND7290.6%
- 6PANCHAL RAMANLAL NARBHERAMIndependent · IND5390.5%
- 7SOLANKI MERUJI VIRAJIIndependent · IND3480.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −14.7%
- BJP share
- 54.7% → 45.5%
- INC share
- 30.7% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —