Constituency
68. Ellis Bridge
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-ELLIS-BRIDGE
BJP 76.1%won by 56.2%INC 19.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 59.4% to 56.2%.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
1,02,843
Margin
57,790
56.19%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1SHETH BHAVINBHAI NALINIBHAI (ENGINEER)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP78,22476.1%
- 2RUWALA PRADIPKUMAR KANTILALIndian National Congress · INC20,43419.9%
- 3VAKTA DINESHCHANDRA RATANLAL (DINESH VAKTA)Nationalist Congress Party · NCP1,4831.4%
- 4SHAH SAMIRBHAI NARESHCHANDRASamajwadi Party · SP9300.9%
- 5DESAI RAJENDRA MAGANBHAIIndependent · IND9230.9%
- 6PARIKH AMITKUMAR HARIVADANBHAIShiv Sena · SHS8490.8%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −3.2%
- BJP share
- 77.4% → 76.1%
- INC share
- 18.0% → 19.9%
- Turnout
- — → —