Constituency
25. Jamnagar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-JAMNAGAR
BJP 40.3%won by 7.8%IND 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.0% to 7.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.4% — it polled just 0.6% in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.7% between them, down from 88.7% — 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
63,377
Margin
4,965
7.83%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1TRIVEDI VASUBEN NARENDRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP25,51740.3%
- 2VINODRAI KALYANJIBHAI VASANT (KILUBHAI VASANT)Independent · IND20,55232.4%
- 3KHATTAR PARMANANDBHAI VISHANDASIndependent · IND10,60916.7%
- 4VAGHELA BHIKHUBHAI DESHAL (BHIKHUBHAI VAGHELA)Communist Party of India · CPI3,7165.9%
- 5ADVOCATE TRIVEDI LILABEN GAURISHANKARNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,1851.9%
- 6RAJESH SHIVSHANKAR VYASIndependent · IND7231.1%
- 7SUMARA SALIM VALIMAMADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2920.5%
- 8SOLANKI AJAY SURENDRA (AJAYRAJ BAPU SARAPVALA)Janata Dal (United) · JDU2730.4%
- 9GOSAI RAJESHGAR DALSUKHGARIndependent · IND2430.4%
- 10KHAFI YUSUF AAMADBHAISamajwadi Party · SP1750.3%
- 11DARJADA KASAMBHAI NURMAMADRKEP · RKEP920.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −42.9%
- BJP share
- 51.3% → 40.3%
- IND share
- 0.6% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —