Constituency
152. Padra
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-PADRA
BJP 46.4%won by 19.7%IND 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AIRJP (AIRJP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 19.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 31.6% to 46.4% of the vote here (+14.8%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.7% — it polled just 0.5% in 1998.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.1% of the vote between them, up from 67.6% — 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
1,24,103
Margin
24,479
19.72%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1POONAM PARMAR (POONAM RANCHHODSINH PARMAR)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP57,60146.4%
- 2PATEL DINESHBHAI BALUBHAI (DINUMAMA)Independent · IND33,12226.7%
- 3JITSINH SOMSINH PARMARIndian National Congress · INC28,90523.3%
- 4JAYPRAKASH PREMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,5942.1%
- 5HARMANBHAI FULABHAI PARMARBharatiya Nagrik Party · BNP1,8811.5%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- AIRJP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- −11.4%
- BJP share
- 31.6% → 46.4%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —