Constituency
18. Patan
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-PATAN
BJP 41.1%won by 3.6%INC 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.0% to 3.6%.
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 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.6% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,32,141
Turnout
70.5%
Valid votes
1,63,632
Margin
5,871
3.59%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1DESAI RANCHHOD MAHIJIBHAI (RANCHHOD RABARI VAKIL)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP67,22441.1%
- 2THAKOR JODHAJI GALABJIIndian National Congress · INC61,35337.5%
- 3DESAI KANJIBHAI MOTIBHAIIndependent · IND17,11010.5%
- 4MOHANBHAI HIRABHAI PATELGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP6,4433.9%
- 5MAHESWARI KANUBHAI BHURABHAI (MANDOVARA)Independent · IND3,8292.3%
- 6PARMAR RATNABHAI VIRABHAIIndependent · IND2,0801.3%
- 7PRAJAPATI LILABEN DASHRATHBHAIIndependent · IND1,9271.2%
- 8PARMAR MAGANBHAI AMARABHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9020.6%
- 9PARMAR NANJIBHAI KANTIBHAIIndependent · IND5740.4%
- 10KETANKUMAR JAGABHAI PATELIndependent · IND5300.3%
- 11THAKOR RANJITBHAI CHAMANJIIndependent · IND4080.2%
- 12DODIYA RAMESHKUMAR NAGINDASIndependent · IND3810.2%
- 13ALPESKUMAR DAYABHAI PATELVHS · VHS2960.2%
- 14THAKOR LALJI TEJAJISamajwadi Party · SP2880.2%
- 15THAKOR REVAJI PRATAPJILoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP2870.2%
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
- −2.4%
- BJP share
- 50.4% → 41.1%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- — → 70.5%