Constituency
44. Ellis Bridge
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-ELLIS-BRIDGE
BJP 70.6%won by 50.7%INC 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 47.9% to 50.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.4% between them, down from 96.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,23,386
Turnout
67.6%
Valid votes
1,51,093
Margin
76,672
50.74%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SHRI RAKESH SHAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,06,63170.6%
- 2KAMLESHKUMAR BABULAL SHAHIndian National Congress · INC29,95919.8%
- 3PANDYA JAGRUTIBEN HARENBHAIGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP9,0756.0%
- 4SOLANKI MALABHAI HIRABHAILoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP3,1262.1%
- 5CHAVDA ILABEN JESINGBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9260.6%
- 6GUPTA DIPTIBEN VIPULBHAISamajwadi Party · SP7670.5%
- 7BHAVIK RAJASUCI · SUCI6090.4%
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
- +2.8%
- BJP share
- 72.2% → 70.6%
- INC share
- 24.3% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → 67.6%