Constituency
144. Raopura
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2012
GJ-RAOPURA
BJP 61.1%won by 25.6%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.7% to 25.6%.
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 6.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,37,681
Turnout
68.3%
Valid votes
1,62,348
Margin
41,535
25.58%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1RAJENDRA TRIVEDI (RAJUBHAI VAKIL)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP99,26361.1%
- 2JAYESH THAKKARIndian National Congress · INC57,72835.6%
- 3KALIDASBHAI MOTIBHAI ALIAS NEPOLIYAN PATELIndependent · IND1,7651.1%
- 4SONI SHANTILAL DWARKADASGandhiyan Peoples Party · GPP9820.6%
- 5CHAUHAN VARISALI RAHIMBHAILoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP8050.5%
- 6MOTAVAR GAUTAMKUMAR BHAILALBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7750.5%
- 7JOSHI HITESHKUMAR SUDHAKARBHAIIndependent · IND5420.3%
- 8KIRTIBEN HARISHKUMAR YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP4880.3%
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
- −15.1%
- BJP share
- 67.4% → 61.1%
- INC share
- 26.7% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → 68.3%