Constituency
115. Matar
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-MATAR
BJP 46.5%won by 4.3%INC 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.4% to 4.3%.
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 7.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.8% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,01,690
Turnout
75.7%
Valid votes
1,52,631
Margin
6,487
4.25%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAUHAN DEVUSINH JESINGBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP71,02146.5%
- 2SANJAYBHAI HARIBHAI PATELIndian National Congress · INC64,53442.3%
- 3BHARVAD ZALABHAI GHELABHAIIndependent · IND8,3245.5%
- 4RAKESH RAO ADVOCATEGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP4,1522.7%
- 5PRAJAPATI SUMITRABEN NARESHBHAIIndependent · IND1,8231.2%
- 6VYAS HETALBEN VINUBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0660.7%
- 7PATHAN FIRODASKHAN YASINKHANIndependent · IND6840.4%
- 8CHAUHAN RATANSINH UDESINHIndependent · IND5310.3%
- 9MAKWANA HIRABHAI SOMABHAISPI · SPI4960.3%
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
- −3.1%
- BJP share
- 53.7% → 46.5%
- INC share
- 46.3% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- — → 75.7%