Constituency
168. Olpad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-OLPAD
BJP 50.5%won by 22.4%INC 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.7% to 22.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.6% between them, down from 94.1% — 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
1,27,209
Margin
28,527
22.43%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJPSince 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −2.3%
- BJP share
- 59.4% → 50.5%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- — → —