Constituency
172. Chorasi
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-CHORASI
BJP 74.6%won by 53.3%INC 21.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 44.7% to 53.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.9% of the vote between them, up from 86.9% — 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
2,75,866
Margin
1,47,142
53.34%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1NAROTTAMBHAI PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,05,82774.6%
- 2PATEL ISHVERBHAIIndian National Congress · INC58,68521.3%
- 3SOLANKI PRAVINSINH PRATAPSINHAIRJP · AIRJP5,8172.1%
- 4ZAVERI RAJIV JAYANTILALSamajwadi Party · SP3,0381.1%
- 5VINOD NAYAKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6170.6%
- 6PARMAR RAMANBHAI GORDHANBHAIIndependent · IND5690.2%
- 7SINGH JITENDRA KUMAR HANSNATHIndependent · IND3130.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +8.7%
- BJP share
- 65.8% → 74.6%
- INC share
- 21.1% → 21.3%
- Turnout
- — → —