Constituency
181. Pardi
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-PARDI
BJP 43.7%won by 9.1%INC 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.7% to 9.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.3% between them, down from 95.1% — 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
85,806
Margin
7,814
9.11%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1CHANDRAVADAN MAKANJI PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,49843.7%
- 2PATEL SAVITABEN GAMANBHAIIndian National Congress · INC29,68434.6%
- 3DR. K.C. PATELIndependent · IND15,10617.6%
- 4PATEL JASVANTBHAI UKADBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP1,6842.0%
- 5KISHANBHAI GANDABHAI PATELJanata Dal · JD1,6641.9%
- 6PATEL VIJAYKUMAR BABUBHAIIndependent · IND1700.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −12.6%
- BJP share
- 58.4% → 43.7%
- INC share
- 36.7% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —