Constituency
163. Songadh
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-SONGADH
INC 41.0%won by 21.6%BJP 19.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.9% to 21.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.5% between them, down from 72.9% — 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
99,317
Margin
21,470
21.62%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1VASAVA NAGARBHAI DIVELIYABHAIIndian National Congress · INC40,75941.0%
- 2CHAUDHARI HARSADBHAI RAMJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,28919.4%
- 3CHAUDHARI KAMLESHBHAI PRABHUBHAIJanata Dal (United) · JDU11,86511.9%
- 4GAMIT GURJIBHAI KHALPABHAIIndependent · IND9,99810.1%
- 5CHAUDHARI LALUBHAI KESHAVBHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP5,9596.0%
- 6GAMIT SUMANBHAI NARSIBHAIBharatiya Nagrik Party · BNP5,7025.7%
- 7CHAUDHARI KISHANSINH HIRABHAIIndependent · IND4,0774.1%
- 8GAMIT BALUBHAI RAJIYABHAIIndependent · IND1,6681.7%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −2.3%
- INC share
- 48.4% → 41.0%
- BJP share
- 24.5% → 19.4%
- Turnout
- — → —