Constituency
156. Broach
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-BROACH
BJP 45.6%won by 8.1%INC 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.4% to 8.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,03,424
Margin
8,371
8.09%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1BIPINBHAI ISHWARLAL SHAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,16945.6%
- 2PATEL JAYESHBHAI AMBALALIndian National Congress · INC38,79837.5%
- 3MOHMAD PATEL FANSIWALAAIRJP · AIRJP9,6729.4%
- 4PARMAR DHIRAJLAL ICHHALALJanata Dal · JD5,8155.6%
- 5MEMBER ABID AHMEDIndependent · IND1,4141.4%
- 6RATHOD DHARMNARAYAN LALARAMIndependent · IND3090.3%
- 7PAINTER RAMNIKBHAI MOHANBHAIIndependent · IND2470.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −11.3%
- BJP share
- 49.6% → 45.6%
- INC share
- 30.2% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → —