Constituency
140. Cambay
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-CAMBAY
BJP 36.5%won by 2.6%INC 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.1% to 2.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.5% between them, down from 92.3% — 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
88,458
Margin
2,268
2.56%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SHUKAL SHIRISKUMAR MADHUSUDANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP32,32436.5%
- 2PRABHUDAS SHANKARBHAI PATELIndian National Congress · INC30,05634.0%
- 3JAYENDRAKUMAR BHAGVANDAS KHATRIAIRJP · AIRJP21,90524.8%
- 4MAGANBHAI CHHELABHAI BHARVADJanata Dal · JD3,0793.5%
- 5SHANABHAI LAKHABHAI TALPADAIndependent · IND6960.8%
- 6PRAVINBHAI ICHHABHAI ANJARIAIndependent · IND2460.3%
- 7ISTIYAK HUMO ISHAK SHEKHIndependent · IND1520.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −11.5%
- BJP share
- 53.2% → 36.5%
- INC share
- 39.1% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —