Constituency
17. Rajkot-I
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-RAJKOT-I
BJP 51.8%won by 10.6%INC 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 10.4% to 10.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.9% between them, down from 99.2% — 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
1,56,224
Margin
16,585
10.62%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1TAPUBHAI LIMBASIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP80,87051.8%
- 2JADEJA MANOHARSINHJI PRADUMANSINHJIIndian National Congress · INC64,28541.1%
- 3DOCTOR HEMANG VASAVDANationalist Congress Party · NCP3,8322.5%
- 4CHIKHALIYA PRATAPBHAI ZAVERBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,5261.6%
- 5SONARA BHIMABHAI KARSANBHAIIndependent · IND2,0861.3%
- 6LIMBASIYA BHARATBHAI JERAMBHAIIndependent · IND1,2440.8%
- 7BALASARA MAVJIBHAI DEVABHAIIndependent · IND6900.4%
- 8DUDHATRA MUKUNDBHAI GOVINDBHAIIndependent · IND3990.3%
- 9PARMAR MAHAMADRAFI JIVABHAIIndependent · IND2920.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +0.3%
- BJP share
- 54.8% → 51.8%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —