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Constituency

132. Chakalasi

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 1998

GJ-CHAKALASI

INC 47.8%won by 10.7%BJP 37.1%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.8% to 10.7%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.0% of the vote between them, up from 71.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
98,047
Margin
10,483
10.69%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCBJP swing
−24.0%
INC share
51.0% 47.8%
BJP share
16.3% 37.1%
Turnout