Constituency
79. Gandhi Nagar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-GANDHI-NAGAR
INC 51.6%won by 12.4%BJP 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.3% to 51.6% of the vote here (+23.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.8% of the vote between them, up from 71.5% — 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
1,60,967
Margin
20,025
12.44%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1DR. C. J. CHAVDAIndian National Congress · INC83,10751.6%
- 2VADIBHAI BHAICHANDDAS PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP63,08239.2%
- 3PATEL ASHOKBHAI HIRABHAI (ADVOCATE)Independent · IND7,1454.4%
- 4SOLANKI CHETANKUMAR RAIJIBHAIIndependent · IND4,5702.8%
- 5PARMAR SHANTABEN HARSHADKUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1280.7%
- 6VADILAL GORDHANDAS PATELIndependent · IND1,0760.7%
- 7INDRAPURI JASHUBHAI MOHANLALSamajwadi Party · SP8590.5%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +24.6%
- INC share
- 28.3% → 51.6%
- BJP share
- 40.4% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —