Constituency
129. Mehmedabad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-MEHMEDABAD
BJP 47.7%won by 15.3%INC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 15.7% to 15.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from AIRJP (AIRJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.1% of the vote between them, up from 70.3% — 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
1,04,979
Margin
16,066
15.30%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAUHAN SUNDARSINH BHALABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP50,08047.7%
- 2DABHI MANILAL PUNJABHAIIndian National Congress · INC34,01432.4%
- 3CHAUHAN PRABHATSINH HATHISINHIndependent · IND13,84613.2%
- 4SHARMA KESHAVLAL AMBALALIndependent · IND3,6773.5%
- 5BABARIYA BHIJENDRASINH CHUNILALNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,0251.9%
- 6JOSHI PINALKUMAR BHANUPRASADIndependent · IND1,3371.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −10.6%
- BJP share
- 43.0% → 47.7%
- INC share
- 17.0% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —