Constituency
139. Banaskantha
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-BANASKANTHA
INC 44.6%won by 2.5%BJP 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 44.6% of the vote here (+44.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.6% between them, down from 95.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.8% to 43.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,85,314
Turnout
43.7%
Valid votes
4,74,690
Margin
11,960
2.52%
Candidates
17 contested · winner INC- 1B.K. GADHAVIIndian National Congress · INC2,11,62444.6%
- 2CHAVADA HARISINHJI PRATAPSINHJIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,99,66442.1%
- 3KESAJI SHIVAJI CHAUHANAIICT · AIICT48,85910.3%
- 4PARMAR VINODBHAI DOLATBHAIIndependent · IND2,5530.5%
- 5BAROT BABUJI SHAMJIIndependent · IND2,3580.5%
- 6JOSHI RAJENDRAKUMAR CHIMANLALShiv Sena · SHS1,8070.4%
- 7VARAIYA JAYANTILAL SAVJIBHAIIndependent · IND1,5350.3%
- 8KHATRI BHAGAVATIBEN KHETSIBHAIIndependent · IND1,1890.3%
- 9MAHENDRAKUMAR MAFATLAL THAKKARIndependent · IND9950.2%
- 10DESAI JAYANTILAL GAGALDASIndependent · IND8550.2%
- 11DADUBHA DARBARIndependent · IND8400.2%
- 12KUNVARABHAI VASHARAMBHAI PATELIndependent · IND8030.2%
- 13PANDYA BALDEVBHAI GULABJIIndependent · IND5160.1%
- 14DARJI NATVARLAL AMRUTLALIndependent · IND3890.1%
- 15THAKKAR BABULAL DEVARAMIndependent · IND2530.1%
- 16BHIL KALABHAI MANGLABHAIIndependent · IND2420.1%
- 17THAKAR GANPATLAL KESHAVLALIndependent · IND2080.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +56.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 44.6%
- BJP share
- 53.7% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- 46.5% → 43.7%