Constituency
138. Patan
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-PATAN
BJP 58.8%won by 28.9%INC 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.6% to 28.9%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 29.9% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.8% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.3% to 31.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,71,332
Turnout
31.6%
Valid votes
3,07,253
Margin
88,823
28.91%
Candidates
22 contested · winner BJP- 1MAHESHKUMAR MITHABHAI KANODIABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,80,76158.8%
- 2LEUVA POONAMCHAND MOHANLALIndian National Congress · INC91,93829.9%
- 3DOLATBHAI PARMARAIICT · AIICT18,9166.2%
- 4PARMAR KANTABEN MAFATLALIndependent · IND2,2760.7%
- 5PRAHLADBHAI CHAUHANJanata Dal · JD2,2150.7%
- 6K.K. CHAUHANSMP · SMP1,5610.5%
- 7JIVANLAL M. PARMARIndependent · IND1,5460.5%
- 8DR. CHANDRABEN SHRIMALISamajwadi Party · SP1,2240.4%
- 9TAPODHAN BALDEVBHAI JAMDASShiv Sena · SHS1,1460.4%
- 10CHAUHAN TRIBHOVANDAS VITTHALDASIndependent · IND7660.2%
- 11SOLANKI KANTIBHAI HEMABHAIIndependent · IND7310.2%
- 12BABUBHAI R. PARMARIndependent · IND6090.2%
- 13PARSOTAMBHAI MANBHAI PARMARIndependent · IND5280.2%
- 14K.G. PARMARIndependent · IND4990.2%
- 15GANDHI ASHOKBHAI KHEMCHANDBHAIIndependent · IND4340.1%
- 16VITTHALBHAI RANCHHODBHAI CHAUHANIndependent · IND3730.1%
- 17PARMAR RATILAL RANCHHODBHAIIndependent · IND3620.1%
- 18SRIMALI LAXMANBHAI MAGANBHAIIndependent · IND3430.1%
- 19SENMA LAXMANBHAI RAJABHAIIndependent · IND3350.1%
- 20PARMAR VIRCHANDBHAI KARSANBHAI (ZERI)Independent · IND2630.1%
- 21PARMAR JAYANTILAL RATILALIndependent · IND2200.1%
- 22TURI KANTIBHAI RATNABHAIIndependent · IND2070.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −24.3%
- BJP share
- 53.2% → 58.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- 41.0% → 31.6%