Constituency
83. Mehsana
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-MEHSANA
BJP 51.1%won by 14.8%INC 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.9% to 14.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.5% of the vote between them, up from 78.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,20,301
Margin
17,772
14.77%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1ANILBHAI TRIBHOVANDAS PATEL (APOLLO GROUP)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP61,49151.1%
- 2PATEL JIVABHAI AMBALALIndian National Congress · INC43,71936.3%
- 3PATEL MANUBHAI KHODIDAS (CHOKSI)Independent · IND10,9329.1%
- 4PRAJAPATI KANTIBHAI PUNJIRAMBHAIIndependent · IND1,9901.7%
- 5THAKOR AMRUTJI BABUJIIndependent · IND1,0800.9%
- 6THAKOR SENDHAJI RANAJIIndependent · IND7560.6%
- 7DR. P. C. PATEL (M. D.)Independent · IND3330.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +11.8%
- BJP share
- 40.9% → 51.1%
- INC share
- 37.9% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- — → —