Constituency
157. Ankleshwar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-ANKLESHWAR
BJP 40.8%won by 8.2%INC 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.0% to 8.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.5% between them, down from 89.0% — 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
98,371
Margin
8,055
8.19%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1PATEL JAYANTIBHAI ZINABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,17040.8%
- 2PATEL AMBUBHAI GOMANBHAIIndian National Congress · INC32,11532.6%
- 3PATEL RATANJIBHAI BALUBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP10,94011.1%
- 4VASAVA JIVRAM RAIJIBHAIJanata Dal · JD10,45710.6%
- 5PATEL SOMBHAI ALIAS HIMMATBHAIIndependent · IND1,9622.0%
- 6KHAN MOHMED USMAN JALALUDDINSamajwadi Party · SP1,9372.0%
- 7VASAVA BABUBHAI DEVJIBHAIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3520.4%
- 8VASAVA CHETANBHAI KANJIIndependent · IND3230.3%
- 9RAI LALBACHAN SADABHAIIndependent · IND1150.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −1.8%
- BJP share
- 49.5% → 40.8%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —