Constituency
38. Somnath
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-SOMNATH
INC 41.6%won by 6.0%BJP 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.8% to 41.6% of the vote here (+18.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.3% of the vote between them, up from 63.9% — 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
1,23,024
Margin
7,362
5.98%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1BARAD JESABHAI BHANABHAIIndian National Congress · INC51,20741.6%
- 2GOHEL CHUNILAL KANJIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,84535.6%
- 3BAMANIYA KANA (KANBHAI) KARSHANIndependent · IND18,60615.1%
- 4VALA VIRAMBHAI NATHUBHAIIndependent · IND2,6232.1%
- 5ABHANI MULUBHAI VRUJLALIndependent · IND2,3601.9%
- 6KAMALIYA PUNABHAI BHOJABHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP1,6551.3%
- 7GADHIYA KANABHAI VASABHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6231.3%
- 8MAHIDA MAMANBHAI MUSABHAIIndependent · IND1,1050.9%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +24.2%
- INC share
- 22.8% → 41.6%
- BJP share
- 41.0% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —