Constituency
139. Sankheda
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-SANKHEDA
INC 46.5%won by 0.8%BJP 45.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.9% to 46.5% of the vote here (+8.6%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,452 votes (0.84%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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Electorate
2,34,656
Turnout
73.8%
Valid votes
1,73,119
Margin
1,452
0.84%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BHIL DHIRUBHAI CHUNILALIndian National Congress · INC80,57946.5%
- 2TADVI ABHESINH MOTIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP79,12745.7%
- 3TADVI RANJANBHAI KANCHANBHAIIndependent · IND6,8694.0%
- 4BACHUBHAI KOCHARABHAI RATHVABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,4032.0%
- 5BHIL SOMABHAI GOKALBHAIGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP3,1411.8%
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
- +12.5%
- INC share
- 37.9% → 46.5%
- BJP share
- 49.6% → 45.7%
- Turnout
- — → 73.8%