Constituency
90. Somnath
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-SOMNATH
INC 35.9%won by 1.3%BJP 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.6% between them, down from 80.9% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,05,796
Turnout
76.7%
Valid votes
1,57,760
Margin
2,096
1.33%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1BARAD JASHUBHAI DHANABHAIIndian National Congress · INC56,70135.9%
- 2JOTVA RAJSIBHAI VIRABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP54,60534.6%
- 3VALA JAGMALBHAI JADAVBHAIIndependent · IND23,41714.8%
- 4GOHEL NARENDRAKUMAR (RAVI) KANJIBHAIIndependent · IND9,8426.2%
- 5SOLANKI PRADIPSINH M.Independent · IND3,7922.4%
- 6PARMAR RAJABHAI PARBATBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,9911.9%
- 7SUMARA HUSENBHAI MIRAJIBHAIIndependent · IND1,8951.2%
- 8SIDA IQBAL KASAMBHAISamajwadi Party · SP1,1560.7%
- 9RUDHANI SATISHKUMAR TULSIDASIndependent · IND8970.6%
- 10UMESHBHAI CHAMPAKBHAI PATELIndependent · IND6310.4%
- 11CHUDASAMA HIRABHAI MASRIBHAIIndependent · IND6070.4%
- 12GADHIYA YUSUFBHAI ADAMBHAIIndependent · IND5220.3%
- 13GADHIYA GULAMSHABBIR HAJIIBRAHIMIndependent · IND4050.3%
- 14ABHANI MATHURDAS VRUJLALIndependent · IND2990.2%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +4.9%
- INC share
- 38.7% → 35.9%
- BJP share
- 42.3% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → 76.7%