Constituency
161. Nijhar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-NIJHAR
INC 60.9%won by 33.3%BJP 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 33.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.5% to 60.9% of the vote here (+36.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.4% of the vote between them, up from 59.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
89,535
Margin
29,801
33.28%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1VASAVA PARESHBHAI GOVINDBHAIIndian National Congress · INC54,49760.9%
- 2SUBHASHBHAI ROTUBHAI PADAVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,69627.6%
- 3VASAVA MANJIBHAI DEVALIYABHAIAIRJP · AIRJP3,2063.6%
- 4DONVALA NARAYANBHAI HARJIBHAIIndependent · IND2,4942.8%
- 5GAMIT JAGDISHBHAI DHONABHAIJanata Dal · JD2,2822.5%
- 6VASAVA MANJIBHAI FULJIBHAICommunist Party of India · CPI1,6961.9%
- 7KUNWAR SHANKARBHAI RAMBHAIIndependent · IND6640.7%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +43.9%
- INC share
- 24.5% → 60.9%
- BJP share
- 35.1% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —