Constituency
165. Mahuva
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-MAHUVA
BJP 36.3%won by 8.0%INC 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.7% to 8.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.7% between them, down from 84.8% — 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
95,938
Margin
7,646
7.97%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1DHODIYA MOHANBHAI DHANJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP34,85036.3%
- 2GAMIT CHHITUBHAI DEVJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC27,20428.4%
- 3VAHIA ISHVRBHAI NARSINHBHAIIndependent · IND17,62518.4%
- 4PATEL VIJAYKUMAR HARIBHAIBharatiya Nagrik Party · BNP13,01113.6%
- 5PATEL SUMANBHAI BHIKHUBHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP1,7191.8%
- 6CHAUDHARI MANILAL CHONGABHAISamajwadi Party · SP8020.8%
- 7CHAUDHARI ARJUNBHAI BHALJIBHAIJanata Dal (United) · JDU7270.8%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −19.8%
- BJP share
- 56.3% → 36.3%
- INC share
- 28.5% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- — → —