Constituency
76. Kalawad
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-KALAWAD
BJP 36.5%won by 4.6%INC 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.4% to 4.6%.
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 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.4% between them, down from 85.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,94,894
Turnout
69.0%
Valid votes
1,34,420
Margin
6,119
4.55%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAVDA MEGHJIBHAI AMARABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP49,02736.5%
- 2PARMAR DINESHBHAI RUDABHAI (DR. DINESH PARMAR)Indian National Congress · INC42,90831.9%
- 3GIRDHARBHAI ALABHAI VAGHELAGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP33,41824.9%
- 4PADHIYAR LALAJIBHAI KARABHAIIndependent · IND3,0962.3%
- 5BOKHANI ARVINDBHAI GORJIBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,5771.9%
- 6CHAVDA MEGHJIBHAI UGABHAIIndependent · IND1,8441.4%
- 7CHAVDA MEGHJIBHAI PITHABHAIIndependent · IND1,5501.2%
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
- −2.9%
- BJP share
- 46.6% → 36.5%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- — → 69.0%