Constituency
171. Surat City West
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-SURAT-CITY-WEST
BJP 62.4%won by 29.1%INC 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 44.0% to 29.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
99,908
Margin
29,060
29.09%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAPATWALA BHAVNABEN HEMANTBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP62,38262.4%
- 2DESAI NAISHADH BHUPATBHAIIndian National Congress · INC33,32233.4%
- 3TAGALA VALIMOHAMAD GULAMKHANIndependent · IND1,0451.0%
- 4KAPADIA MOHMAD IRFAN GULAM MOHMADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8210.8%
- 5MISHTRI DIPAKKUMAR CHANDULALNationalist Congress Party · NCP4750.5%
- 6GODIWALA VIKASH KANTIBHAIIndependent · IND4390.4%
- 7JOSHI PRITIBEN JIGNESHKUMARABJS · ABJS4170.4%
- 8ATUL MEHTA (ADVOCATE)Independent · IND4020.4%
- 9MAISURIYA AMRUTLAL UTTAMLALSamajwadi Party · SP3550.4%
- 10AJITBHAI NARSHIHBHAI PATELSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1470.1%
- 11ANSARI ALATAF HUSSAIN MOHMADALIPRBP · PRBP1030.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −14.9%
- BJP share
- 70.0% → 62.4%
- INC share
- 26.1% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —