Constituency
169. Surat City North
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-SURAT-CITY-NORTH
BJP 72.7%won by 48.7%INC 24.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.7% to 48.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.6% of the vote between them, up from 90.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
97,260
Margin
47,353
48.69%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1GAJERA DHIRUBHAI HARIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP70,66072.7%
- 2DR.KHENI ZINABHAIIndian National Congress · INC23,30724.0%
- 3PATEL NARSINHBHAI KANJIBHAI ( DHASAWALA )AIRJP · AIRJP2,0412.1%
- 4CHHAGANBHAI K. LAKHPATIIndependent · IND7290.7%
- 5ADVOCATE NIKUNJALATA BHUPENDRABHAI JARIWALAIndependent · IND5230.5%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +23.0%
- BJP share
- 58.3% → 72.7%
- INC share
- 32.6% → 24.0%
- Turnout
- — → —