Constituency
7. Vav
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-VAV
BJP 41.3%won by 6.8%INC 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.2% to 6.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.9% of the vote between them, up from 66.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,26,005
Turnout
77.8%
Valid votes
1,75,757
Margin
11,911
6.78%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SHANKARBHAI LAGDHIRBHAI PATEL (CHAUDHARY)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP72,64041.3%
- 2THAKOR GENIBEN NAGAJIIndian National Congress · INC60,72934.6%
- 3THAKKAR CHANDULAL TEJARAMBHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP30,18517.2%
- 4THAKOR BALVANTJI NAGJIJIIndependent · IND4,7512.7%
- 5PAREGI BABABHAI JIVABHAILoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP2,6481.5%
- 6SENGAL KALYANBHAI MADEVBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4151.4%
- 7BHUNJAR ASHOKBHAI LAGDHIRBHAIGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP2,3891.4%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −21.9%
- BJP share
- 46.6% → 41.3%
- INC share
- 17.9% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → 77.8%