Constituency
59. Dhandhuka
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-DHANDHUKA
BJP 56.1%won by 20.4%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 20.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 41.5% to 56.1% of the vote here (+14.5%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 35.6% — it did not contest here in 2007.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,14,334
Turnout
64.5%
Valid votes
1,38,362
Margin
28,277
20.44%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1LALJIBHAI CHATURBHAI KOLIPATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP77,57356.1%
- 2M.M. SHAHIndian National Congress · INC49,29635.6%
- 3SARVAIYA DHIRUBHAI AMARSHIBHAIIndependent · IND4,6673.4%
- 4DESAI BHARATKUMAR NANALALGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP1,5531.1%
- 5VEGAD ABHABHAI RAGHAVBHAIIndependent · IND1,5241.1%
- 6GORAHVA VINODBHAI SHIVABHAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,5091.1%
- 7MENIYA BATUKBHAI JINABHAIIndependent · IND8310.6%
- 8MITABEN PRABHUDAS GOHELBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7410.5%
- 9BHITORA JAGDISHBHAI HARJIBHAIIndependent · IND6680.5%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- −21.1%
- BJP share
- 41.5% → 56.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → 64.5%