Constituency
163. Songadh
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-SONGADH
INC 48.4%won by 23.9%BJP 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.0% to 48.4% of the vote here (+22.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.3% — 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
77,606
Margin
18,549
23.90%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1VASAVA NAGARBHAI DIVELIYABHAIIndian National Congress · INC37,54448.4%
- 2GAMIT PANACHAND RAJABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,99524.5%
- 3CHAUDHRI MAKABHAI GANGJIBHAIJanata Dal · JD9,46412.2%
- 4VASAVA ISHAVARBHAI SURJIBHAIIndependent · IND4,1825.4%
- 5VASAVA VECHIYABHAI SEVLABHAIIndependent · IND3,3844.4%
- 6CHAUDHRI MANAHARBHAI MAGANBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP2,5203.2%
- 7GAMIT SANDIPKUMAR MOHANBHAIIndependent · IND8191.1%
- 8GAMIT VASANTBHAI GANGARAMBHAIIndependent · IND5190.7%
- 9CHAUDHARI JASAVANTBHAI CHHAGANBHAIIndependent · IND1790.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +18.0%
- INC share
- 26.0% → 48.4%
- BJP share
- 20.1% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- — → —