Constituency
119. Kalol
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-KALOL
BJP 48.0%won by 27.0%INC 21.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.0% to 27.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.1% between them, down from 75.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
75,840
Margin
20,477
27.00%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAUHAN P.P.Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,43648.0%
- 2SOLANKI S.M.Indian National Congress · INC15,95921.0%
- 3CHAUHAN G.M.Janata Dal · JD14,73319.4%
- 4CHAVADA L.G.AIRJP · AIRJP7,77610.3%
- 5THAKOR B.R.Independent · IND9361.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +19.0%
- BJP share
- 41.6% → 48.0%
- INC share
- 33.6% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- — → —