Constituency
70. Shahpur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-SHAHPUR
BJP 50.8%won by 3.4%INC 47.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.6% to 3.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 91.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
60,441
Margin
2,074
3.43%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1PATEL KAUSHIKKUMAR JAMNADAS (KAUSHIK PATEL)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP30,70850.8%
- 2SHAH PANKAJKUMAR JAYANTILAL (PANKAJ SHAH)Indian National Congress · INC28,63447.4%
- 3DINESHBHAI HARIKISHANDAS PATELIndependent · IND6491.1%
- 4KANUBHAI BABUBHAI RANAABJS · ABJS2340.4%
- 5IMRAN GULAMNABI AJMERIIndependent · IND2160.4%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −14.1%
- BJP share
- 54.6% → 50.8%
- INC share
- 37.1% → 47.4%
- Turnout
- — → —