Constituency
144. Kaira
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-KAIRA
INC 49.1%won by 13.7%BJP 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 49.1% of the vote here (+49.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.6% between them, down from 95.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 35.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,34,342
Turnout
35.1%
Valid votes
3,63,153
Margin
49,571
13.65%
Candidates
18 contested · winner INC- 1DINSHA PATELIndian National Congress · INC1,78,31849.1%
- 2DR. K.D. JESHWANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,28,74735.5%
- 3AMARSINHJI BHUPATSINHJI VAGHELAAIICT · AIICT40,77911.2%
- 4PATHAK VIRENDRA RAMCHANDRAShiv Sena · SHS1,9990.6%
- 5MALEK AMDUMIYA DASHOTIMIYABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9690.5%
- 6VAGHELA RAJESHKUMAR LALUBHAIIndependent · IND1,7890.5%
- 7CHAUHAN ASHVINCHANDRA RAVJIBHAI (KUMAR)Janata Dal · JD1,7360.5%
- 8AIYUBBHAI NABIJIBHAI VAHORAIndependent · IND1,2320.3%
- 9RAMESHBHAI SHANKARBHAI PATELIndependent · IND1,1620.3%
- 10PARMAR KISHANBHAI SHAKRABHAIIndependent · IND1,1550.3%
- 11SHIVABHAI FULABHAI CHAUHANIndependent · IND1,0890.3%
- 12THAKAR SANJAYBHAI GUNVANTBHAIIndependent · IND1,0440.3%
- 13HASMUKH SHAHIndependent · IND4980.1%
- 14DESAI HITESHBHAI MANUBHAIIndependent · IND4440.1%
- 15SATISHBHAI RAMANBHAI RANAIndependent · IND3590.1%
- 16MAKWANA RAVJIBHAI DHULABHAIIndependent · IND3340.1%
- 17BIPINCHANDRA SOLOMAN MAKWANAIndependent · IND3320.1%
- 18PATEL CHANDRAKANTBHAI BHAILALBHAIIndependent · IND1670.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +61.8%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 49.1%
- BJP share
- 48.1% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- 37.3% → 35.1%