Constituency
17. Chanasma
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2017
GJ-CHANASMA
BJP 41.3%won by 4.6%INC 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.5% to 4.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.0% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,59,326
Turnout
68.8%
Valid votes
1,78,529
Margin
8,234
4.61%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1DILIPKUMAR VIRAJI THAKORBharatiya Janata Party · BJP73,77141.3%
- 2DESAI RAGHUBHAI MERAJBHAIIndian National Congress · INC65,53736.7%
- 3THAKOR DINESHBHAI AATAJIIndependent · IND27,63315.5%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,7792.1%
- 5BELIM BABUBHAI LALAKHAMIYAIndependent · IND2,0521.1%
- 6PANDYA PRAVINKUMAR TULSIDASIndependent · IND1,4160.8%
- 7PATEL VIPULBHAI NAGARBHAINationalist Congress Party · NCP1,3660.8%
- 8DARBAR JABBARSANG ARJANSINHIndependent · IND5660.3%
- 9THAKOR ASHOKJI POPATJIIndependent · IND5170.3%
- 10PARMAR ROHITBHAI RAMABHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4170.2%
- 11MITULKUMAR BHAGAVANBHAI PATELGJCP · GJCP3870.2%
- 12PATEL MAHESHKUMAR JAYANTIBHAIBHARP · BHARP3680.2%
- 13PATEL ASHISHBHAI DASHRATHBHAIAINHCP · AINHCP3130.2%
- 14THAKOR RAMESHJI RAMAJIBMUP · BMUP2380.1%
- 15PATEL BHANUMATIBEN ANILKUMARNBNM · NBNM1690.1%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −5.8%
- BJP share
- 51.9% → 41.3%
- INC share
- 41.4% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- 70.1% → 68.8%