Constituency
18. Rajkot-Ii
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-RAJKOT-II
BJP 52.7%won by 10.3%INC 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.9% to 10.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from AIRJP (AIRJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.6% — a tighter two-way 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
82,297
Margin
8,515
10.35%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1VAJUBHAI VALABharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,39752.7%
- 2NATHAWANI KASHMIRA BAKULBHAIIndian National Congress · INC34,88242.4%
- 3RANPARA DILIPBHAI MANIBHAIIndependent · IND1,1381.4%
- 4SHAH JASHVANTLAL MOTILALNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,0061.2%
- 5SONIMAHAJAN NARENDRABHAI AMRATLALIndependent · IND7991.0%
- 6JAMES THOMASSamajwadi Party · SP3630.4%
- 7DUDHATRA MUKUNDBHAI GOVINDBHAIIndependent · IND2980.4%
- 8THAKKAR RAJENDRABHAIIndependent · IND1670.2%
- 9MEHTA AJAY BHUPENDRABHAIIndependent · IND1520.2%
- 10BADRISH CHIMANLAL VAGHELAIndependent · IND950.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −33.2%
- BJP share
- 61.3% → 52.7%
- INC share
- 17.7% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- — → —