Constituency
161. Nijhar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-NIJHAR
INC 40.0%won by 14.5%BJP 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.3% to 14.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.4% between them, down from 88.4% — the field split more ways.
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
1,13,281
Margin
16,463
14.53%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1VASAVA PARESHBHAI GOVINDBHAIIndian National Congress · INC45,29940.0%
- 2PADVI SUBHASHBHAI ROTUBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,83625.5%
- 3VASAVA JAYDEEPSINH PRUTHVISINHBharatiya Nagrik Party · BNP19,00916.8%
- 4GAMIT KANTILAL RESHAMABHAIIndependent · IND12,64611.2%
- 5VASAVA YOSHEFBHAI MARTINBHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP3,0072.7%
- 6VASAVA UTTAMBHAI SANJYABHAIJanata Dal (United) · JDU2,7982.5%
- 7GAMIT JAYRAMBHAI CHEMATIYABHAIJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,6861.5%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −18.8%
- INC share
- 60.9% → 40.0%
- BJP share
- 27.6% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- — → —