Constituency
49. Botad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-BOTAD
BJP 53.7%won by 26.9%INC 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.1% to 26.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.5% between them, down from 91.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,24,113
Margin
33,430
26.94%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1SAURABH PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP66,65053.7%
- 2ODHAVJIBHAI RAMJIBHAI PATELIndian National Congress · INC33,22026.8%
- 3RATHOD KARSANBHAI SONDABHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP17,41914.0%
- 4HIRAPARA KANAJIBHAI KESHAVBHAIIndependent · IND3,0822.5%
- 5GOHIL TAKHATSINH GUMANSINHSamajwadi Party · SP2,3631.9%
- 6HADAKADA ARAJANBHAI RAMBHAIRGJP · RGJP1,3791.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +16.9%
- BJP share
- 50.5% → 53.7%
- INC share
- 40.5% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —