Constituency
57. Bhavnagar North
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-BHAVNAGAR-NORTH
BJP 58.8%won by 27.1%CPM 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.3% to 27.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.4% of the vote between them, up from 72.5% — 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
96,687
Margin
26,194
27.09%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1TRIVEDI MAHENDRABHAI SHANTIBHAI (MAHENDRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,82058.8%
- 2ARUN MEHTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM30,62631.7%
- 3RAVAL DIPAKBHAI PRATAPBHAIIndependent · IND5,5935.8%
- 4BHATT KISHORBHAI VAJUBHAIShiv Sena · SHS1,5821.6%
- 5DHAPA DHARAMSHI RAMJIBHAISamajwadi Party · SP1,1231.2%
- 6ARJUN B. NETARVALAIndependent · IND9431.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–CPM swing
- +6.9%
- BJP share
- 44.4% → 58.8%
- CPM share
- 24.2% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —