Constituency
129. Mehmedabad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-MEHMEDABAD
BJP 43.0%won by 15.7%AIRJP 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.2% to 15.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAIRJP (AIRJP) finished second with 27.3% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.3% between them, down from 79.7% — the field split more ways.
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
78,749
Margin
12,341
15.67%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAUHAN SUNDARSINH BHALABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,85243.0%
- 2CHAUHAN JASWANTSINH MANGALSINHAIRJP · AIRJP21,51127.3%
- 3DABHI JAYDIPSINH AJABSINHIndian National Congress · INC13,41717.0%
- 4SHEKH MEHBUBBHAI JALALBHAIIndependent · IND7,95910.1%
- 5JADAV RAIJIBHAI PUNABHAIIndependent · IND1,2901.6%
- 6SHIVABHAI FULABHAI CHAUHANIndependent · IND7200.9%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AIRJP swing
- −39.8%
- BJP share
- 55.5% → 43.0%
- AIRJP share
- 0.0% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —