Constituency
125. Kapadvanj
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-KAPADVANJ
BJP 38.3%won by 6.0%INC 32.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.8% to 6.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.5% of the vote between them, up from 62.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
88,937
Margin
5,359
6.03%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1BIMAL SHAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP34,05138.3%
- 2CHAUHAN B.J.Indian National Congress · INC28,69232.3%
- 3PATEL M.D.AIRJP · AIRJP23,05225.9%
- 4PATEL C.J.Janata Dal · JD8170.9%
- 5N.S,CHAUHANIndependent · IND6970.8%
- 6PATEL M.B.Independent · IND6340.7%
- 7NAGAR R.A.Independent · IND5550.6%
- 8KURESHI M.R.RPI · RPI3150.4%
- 9RATHOD R.C.Independent · IND1240.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −17.9%
- BJP share
- 41.0% → 38.3%
- INC share
- 17.0% → 32.3%
- Turnout
- — → —