Constituency
71. Rajkot Rural
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-RAJKOT-RURAL
BJP 38.6%won by 7.7%INC 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.3% to 7.7%.
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 18.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.6% between them, down from 92.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,24,209
Turnout
66.7%
Valid votes
1,49,564
Margin
11,466
7.67%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1BHANUBEN MANOHARBHAI BABARIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP57,75338.6%
- 2SAGATHIYA LAKHABHAI JETHABHAIIndian National Congress · INC46,28730.9%
- 3GIRISHBHAI HARIBHAI PARMARGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP36,44624.4%
- 4PUSHPABEN ASHOKBHAI VALABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,7232.5%
- 5PRAVINBHAI MEGHJIBHAI DENGDAIndependent · IND2,6081.7%
- 6KALPESH RAMJIBHAI VAGHELAIndependent · IND9990.7%
- 7CHAVDA LAKHMANBHAI DEVJIBHAIIndependent · IND9650.6%
- 8GEDIYA MANOJBHAI NATHABHAIIndependent · IND7830.5%
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
- −13.6%
- BJP share
- 57.1% → 38.6%
- INC share
- 35.8% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → 66.7%