Constituency
22. Visnagar
Community mirrorGujarat · Gujarat Assembly Election, 2017
GJ-VISNAGAR
BJP 48.9%won by 1.8%INC 47.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.8% to 1.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 47.1% — it did not contest here in 2012.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.1% of the vote between them, up from 87.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,11,719
Turnout
74.8%
Valid votes
1,58,346
Margin
2,869
1.81%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1PATEL RUSHIKESH GANESHBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP77,49648.9%
- 2PATEL MAHENDRAKUMAR S. (MAHESH PATEL)Indian National Congress · INC74,62747.1%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,9921.9%
- 4PATEL YATEENKUMAR HASMUKHBHAI (TEJASH)Independent · IND1,0480.7%
- 5PARMAR NANJIBHAI KARSANBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6770.4%
- 6PATEL HIREN KUMAR VISHNU BHAIGJCP · GJCP4190.3%
- 7PATEL MAHENDRABHAI SHANKARBHAI (MAHESH PATEL)Independent · IND3950.2%
- 8PATEL MAHENDRABHAI SHANKARBHAI (MAHESHBHAI PATEL)Independent · IND2830.2%
- 9ASHOKKUMAR SOMALAL RAMIJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS2260.1%
- 10PATEL ANITABEN RAMABHAIJanata Dal (United) · JDU1830.1%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −52.2%
- BJP share
- 54.0% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 47.1%
- Turnout
- 75.1% → 74.8%