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58. Bhavnagar South

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 2002

GJ-BHAVNAGAR-SOUTH

BJP 51.7%won by 8.2%INC 43.5%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.9% to 8.2%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.2% — 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
1,22,281
Margin
10,034
8.21%

Candidates

6 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1OZA SUNIL BALKRISHNABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP63,17251.7%
  2. 2GOHIL SHAKTISINHJI HARISHCHANDRASINHJIIndian National Congress · INC53,13843.5%
  3. 3MAKWANA JESINGBHAI MALJIBHAIIndependent · IND3,1702.6%
  4. 4PATEL MAHESHBHAI BALUBHAIIndependent · IND1,2641.0%
  5. 5YADAV VELJIBHAI LAKHABHAISamajwadi Party · SP1,1350.9%
  6. 6PATHAN NASHIRKHAN HUSEINBHAIIndependent · IND4020.3%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
−2.7%
BJP share
46.0% → 51.7%
INC share
35.1% → 43.5%
Turnout
— → —
57. Bhavnagar North59. Dhandhuka
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