Constituency
137. Matar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-MATAR
INC 31.5%won by 1.5%BJP 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.8% to 31.5% of the vote here (+10.7%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.4% between them, down from 81.2% — 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
93,885
Margin
1,432
1.53%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1CHAVDA DHIRUBHAI AMARSINGIndian National Congress · INC29,55631.5%
- 2DR.K.D.JESWANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,12430.0%
- 3GOHEL RANMALSINH JIVANSINHAIRJP · AIRJP21,24722.6%
- 4PATHAN FATEHKHAN ANWARKHANIndependent · IND7,1077.6%
- 5BRAHMBHATT VISHNUPRASAD DAHYABHAISamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP5,0315.4%
- 6PARMAR MULRAJSINH MADHAVSINHIndependent · IND1,6041.7%
- 7SHAH GHANSHYAMBHAI SHANTILALIndependent · IND9291.0%
- 8PATEL ARVINDBHAI AMRUTBHAIIndependent · IND2870.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −7.1%
- INC share
- 20.8% → 31.5%
- BJP share
- 12.2% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —