Constituency
141. Kapadvanj
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-KAPADVANJ
BJP 56.6%won by 27.5%INC 29.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.5% to 27.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.6% between them, down from 96.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.5% to 27.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,02,487
Turnout
27.6%
Valid votes
3,04,800
Margin
83,937
27.54%
Candidates
18 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAUHAN JAYSINHJI MANSINGJIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,72,47656.6%
- 2CHAUHAN FULSINH VAJESIGHIndian National Congress · INC88,53929.0%
- 3RAMSIHJI RUPSIHJI SOLANKIIndependent · IND27,1068.9%
- 4THAKOR BABARJI ABHUJIIndependent · IND2,4730.8%
- 5PATEL NAVNITHBHAI ARJANBHAIIndependent · IND2,3970.8%
- 6PATHAN MAHAMAD AAGHAKHAN ABDULAKHANIndependent · IND1,8200.6%
- 7DARJI CHIMANLAL KISHORBHAI (DHANSURWALA)Independent · IND1,7880.6%
- 8THAKOR SHIVSINH NATHUSINHAIICT · AIICT1,3240.4%
- 9PATEL KESHAVLAL KUBERDASSamajwadi Party · SP1,1740.4%
- 10R.K. THAPABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1360.4%
- 11PARMAR RAMESHBHAI KHUSHALBHAIRPI · RPI1,0540.3%
- 12RAJPUT CHANDRASINH SAJJANSINHIndependent · IND6740.2%
- 13CHAUHAN GIRIVATSINH HIMATSINHIndependent · IND5980.2%
- 14MEHTA YOGESH TRIBHOVANDASIndependent · IND5230.2%
- 15DABHI DILIPSINH AMBALALIndependent · IND5120.2%
- 16PRAJAPATI JAYANTIBHAI PARSHOTAMDASIndependent · IND4740.2%
- 17PATEL KANUBHAI CHHAGANBHAIIndependent · IND4090.1%
- 18SOLANKI MANAJI PUNJAJIIndependent · IND3230.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +19.1%
- BJP share
- 52.4% → 56.6%
- INC share
- 43.9% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- 35.1% → 27.6%