Constituency
8. Wadhwan
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-WADHWAN
BJP 51.3%won by 15.3%INC 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.8% to 15.3%.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,15,791
Margin
17,744
15.32%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1KELA DHANRAJBHAI GOVINDBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP59,44651.3%
- 2ZALA RANJITSINH JILUBHAIndian National Congress · INC41,70236.0%
- 3SANKALIYA GANGARAMBHAI TAPUBHAIIndependent · IND7,3026.3%
- 4JOBANPUTRA NAVINCHANDRA CHUNILALNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,9401.7%
- 5HARJIBHAI VALJIBHAI KANZARIYABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4161.2%
- 6JASHUBHAI SHETH (BHADRESHIVALA)Independent · IND1,1651.0%
- 7PATEL JAGDISHBHAI KANJIBHAI (SHIVSENAVALA)Independent · IND8860.8%
- 8MANDLIA RUPESH CHANDRAKANTBHAIIndependent · IND7940.7%
- 9CHAUHAN JAYESHKUMAR LALJIBHAIIndependent · IND6010.5%
- 10CHHAGANLAL ALABHAI VANIYASamajwadi Party · SP5390.5%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −5.4%
- BJP share
- 53.2% → 51.3%
- INC share
- 32.4% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- — → —