Constituency
17. Chanasma
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-CHANASMA
BJP 51.9%won by 10.5%INC 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.7% to 10.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.3% of the vote between them, up from 88.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,29,411
Turnout
70.1%
Valid votes
1,60,849
Margin
16,824
10.46%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1DILIPKUMAR VIRAJIBHAI THAKORBharatiya Janata Party · BJP83,46251.9%
- 2THAKOR DINESHBHAI AATAJIIndian National Congress · INC66,63841.4%
- 3CHAUDHARI RAMESHBHAI NATHABHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7941.7%
- 4PRAJAPATI JITENDRAKUMAR JAYANTIBHAIIndependent · IND2,4391.5%
- 5RAMESHBHAI GOVINDBHAI PATELIndependent · IND1,5351.0%
- 6VYAS MARKANDRAY ISHWARLALSamajwadi Party · SP1,4100.9%
- 7POPATBHAI MANILAL PATELIndependent · IND1,1500.7%
- 8NADODA NAVINBHAI AAJABHAIIndependent · IND9340.6%
- 9THAKOR KANTIJI POPATJIIndependent · IND4870.3%
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
- −8.3%
- BJP share
- 53.5% → 51.9%
- INC share
- 34.8% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- — → 70.1%