Constituency
139. Kapadvanj
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-KAPADVANJ
BJP 52.4%won by 8.5%INC 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.8% to 8.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 18.7% to 35.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,52,884
Turnout
35.1%
Valid votes
3,34,876
Margin
28,334
8.46%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1GABHAJI MANGAJI THAKORBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,75,47152.4%
- 2CHAUHAN BUDHAJI JITAJIIndian National Congress · INC1,47,13743.9%
- 3PRAKASH PATELJanata Dal · JD5,3761.6%
- 4PRANAMI RASIKKUMAR VITTHALDASRPI · RPI2,2900.7%
- 5SHAH MANHARLAL CHANDULALJanahitha Paksha · JP1,5310.5%
- 6PATEL GORDHANBHAI DAHYABHAIIndependent · IND8130.2%
- 7PATEL SHIVABHAI MOTIBHAIIndependent · IND7340.2%
- 8NAGINDAS CHIMANLAL SHAHIndependent · IND5960.2%
- 9BHAVSAR HARIVADAN MOHANLALIndependent · IND5850.2%
- 10SATYAJITSINH VIJAYSINH RAODDP · DDP3430.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −22.3%
- BJP share
- 63.2% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 32.4% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- 53.8% → 35.1%