Constituency
168. Olpad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-OLPAD
BJP 44.5%won by 2.5%INC 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.4% to 2.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.5% of the vote between them, up from 78.6% — 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
1,67,675
Margin
4,117
2.46%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1PATEL DHANSUKHBHAI NATHUBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP74,57244.5%
- 2BHAGUBHAI PATEL (VIMAL)Indian National Congress · INC70,45542.0%
- 3PATEL MULJIBHAI GOVINDBHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP13,0127.8%
- 4SONAVANE RAMESH MOHAN (P.SAMRAT)Independent · IND2,8921.7%
- 5PATTNAIK KRUSHNACHANDRA ANTARJGAMIPRBP · PRBP2,3751.4%
- 6PATEL DESHRAJSINGH SIBARAJSINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,1371.3%
- 7MUKESHBHAI AMBELAL PARMARSamajwadi Party · SP1,2560.7%
- 8PATEL KANTIBHAI NAGINBHAIIndependent · IND9760.6%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −20.0%
- BJP share
- 50.5% → 44.5%
- INC share
- 28.1% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —