Constituency
22. Visnagar
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-VISNAGAR
BJP 54.0%won by 20.8%NCP 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.7% to 20.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 33.2% — it did not contest here in 2007.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.2% of the vote between them, up from 80.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,87,953
Turnout
75.1%
Valid votes
1,41,073
Margin
29,399
20.84%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1RUSHIKESH GANESHBHAI PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP76,18554.0%
- 2BHOLABHAI CHATURBHAI PATELNationalist Congress Party · NCP46,78633.2%
- 3THAKOR AJMELJI KESHAJIIndependent · IND10,2747.3%
- 4DAVE HITENDRAKUMAR NARENDRABHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,0781.5%
- 5CHAUHAN ISUBKHAN SHERKHANIndependent · IND1,2720.9%
- 6CHAVDA BHARATJI PRAHLADJISamajwadi Party · SP1,1540.8%
- 7PARMAR DAHYABHAI BHAGABHAILoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP1,1090.8%
- 8THAKOR MAGANSINH BECHARSINHGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP9810.7%
- 9CHAUDHARY BHARATBHAI GHEMARBHAIRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD7200.5%
- 10JAYANTIBHAI REVABHAI PATELJanata Dal (United) · JDU5140.4%
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–NCP swing
- −31.5%
- BJP share
- 52.4% → 54.0%
- NCP share
- 0.0% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- — → 75.1%