Constituency
133. Bhavnagar
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-BHAVNAGAR
BJP 34.7%won by 1.8%IND 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.7% to 1.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 32.9% — it polled just 0.8% in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.6% between them, down from 89.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.4% to 45.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,49,885
Turnout
45.2%
Valid votes
4,29,639
Margin
7,771
1.81%
Candidates
33 contested · winner BJP- 1RAJENDRASINH GHANSHYAMSINH RANABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,49,17734.7%
- 2PURSHOTTAM ODHAVJI SOLANKIIndependent · IND1,41,40632.9%
- 3GOHIL DILIPSINH AJITSINHIndian National Congress · INC1,02,21223.8%
- 4MOHANBHAI D. PATELJanata Dal · JD5,6491.3%
- 5CHAUHAN BACHUBHAI ARJANShiv Sena · SHS5,5971.3%
- 6ARYADUT MANUBHAIIndependent · IND2,9360.7%
- 7ANANTSINH PRABHATSINH SOLANKIIndependent · IND1,8440.4%
- 8AHIR HAMUBHAI UNADBHAIIndependent · IND1,7000.4%
- 9KASAMBHAI SAIYADIndependent · IND1,5380.4%
- 10JJ ZALAIndependent · IND1,5340.4%
- 11LATTABEN ASHOKKUMAR SHUKLAIndependent · IND1,4590.3%
- 12MEHTA SURESHCHANDRA NATWARLALIndependent · IND1,3900.3%
- 13HARSHAD MAKWANAIndependent · IND1,3750.3%
- 14RATHOD NATUBHAI SAMJIBHAIIndependent · IND1,3260.3%
- 15TARMAMAD DOKADIYAIndependent · IND1,0940.3%
- 16VAGHANI JIVRAJ MANJIBHAIIndependent · IND8480.2%
- 17RAMESH MATHURBHAI BARAIYAIndependent · IND8380.2%
- 18DINESHKUMAR DAMJIBHAI PIPALIYAIndependent · IND7940.2%
- 19MANJIBHAI JIVABHAI NAVADIYAIndependent · IND6850.2%
- 20SANT RAMDASJI GURUSUNDARDASJIIndependent · IND6620.2%
- 21CHINMAY PATELABJS · ABJS6570.2%
- 22KUKAREJA LEKHRAJ GOKALDASIndependent · IND6480.2%
- 23ARJUN B. NETARWALARPI · RPI5840.1%
- 24BABARIA HAMIRBHAI DEHABHAIIndependent · IND4880.1%
- 25DILIP B. CHAUHANIndependent · IND4860.1%
- 26PATEL LALLUBHAI VALLABBHAIIndependent · IND4560.1%
- 27CHHAGANBHAI KESHAVBHAI PATELIndependent · IND4330.1%
- 28BHUPATBHAI FAKIWALAIndependent · IND4240.1%
- 29KABIR MANHARDAS ISHVARDASIndependent · IND4230.1%
- 30USAMAN MANSURIIndependent · IND4020.1%
- 31MAVJIBHAI BHIKHABHAI DOOLERAIndependent · IND2300.1%
- 32MAKWANA NIRANJAN KANJIBHAIIndependent · IND2080.0%
- 33BANSIMAL MULANI RAILWAYWALAIndependent · IND1360.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −54.0%
- BJP share
- 56.6% → 34.7%
- IND share
- 0.8% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- 41.8% → 45.2%