Constituency
119. Bhavnagar
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-BHAVNAGAR
INC 41.1%won by 0.2%JD 40.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.1% to 0.2%.
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 40.9% — it did not contest here in 1984.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.0% of the vote between them, up from 72.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 11.9% to 38.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,00,926
Turnout
38.7%
Valid votes
3,48,896
Margin
552
0.16%
Candidates
16 contested · winner INC- 1JAMOD SHASHIKANT MAVJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC1,43,29441.1%
- 2JADEJA PRAVINSINHIJanata Dal · JD1,42,74240.9%
- 3JAYAVANTSINH KEASRISINH SARVAIYAIndependent · IND49,76414.3%
- 4BALDANIYA CHHAGANBHAI JERAMBHAIDDP · DDP2,9330.8%
- 5P.D.GOHILIndependent · IND1,8850.5%
- 6KUKERAJA LEKHARAJMAL GOKALDASIndependent · IND1,4800.4%
- 7ARJUNBHAI BOGHABHAI NETARVALARPI · RPI1,1450.3%
- 8GIRISH PATELIndependent · IND1,0810.3%
- 9PATHAN HUSENKHANMAHMADKHANIndependent · IND9080.3%
- 10KEMANTKUMAR SHANTILAL PANDYAIndependent · IND8380.2%
- 11K.D.PATEL (ZADFIYA)Independent · IND7880.2%
- 12MALI LABHU N.RATHODIndependent · IND4570.1%
- 13DOKADIYA TARMAMAND HASANBHAIIndependent · IND4450.1%
- 14PREMSHANKER DEVKISHAN DAVEIndependent · IND4310.1%
- 15KASAMBHAI ALIMAMAD SAIYADIndependent · IND4050.1%
- 16PATHAN BARAKATHAN NATHUKHANIndependent · IND3000.1%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JD swing
- −37.5%
- INC share
- 37.6% → 41.1%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 40.9%
- Turnout
- 50.6% → 38.7%