Constituency
150. Mandvi
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-MANDVI
INC 46.7%won by 6.2%BJP 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.0% to 6.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.2% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,43,773
Turnout
46.6%
Valid votes
4,86,415
Margin
30,360
6.24%
Candidates
15 contested · winner INC- 1GAMIT CHHITUBHAI DEVJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC2,27,16846.7%
- 2PATEL MANSINHBHAI KALYANJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,96,80840.5%
- 3CHAUDHARI RAMANBHAI KANSARABHAIGAVP · GAVP21,8474.5%
- 4AMRUTLAL ICHCHHUBHAI PATELAIICT · AIICT11,6462.4%
- 5VASAVA SUMANBHAI POSLIYABHAICommunist Party of India · CPI9,4811.9%
- 6AMRUTBHAI CHHAGANBHAI PATELABJS · ABJS3,6380.7%
- 7GAMIT NATUBHAI NATHUBHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,1470.6%
- 8CHAUDHARI MANILAL MADHUBHAIIndependent · IND2,6600.5%
- 9PARSHURAM BHANABHAI PATELIndependent · IND2,3460.5%
- 10CHAUDHARI NASAWANBHAI ASANABHAIIndependent · IND2,2970.5%
- 11PAWAGADHI RANJITSINH BHIMSINGBHAIShiv Sena · SHS1,9880.4%
- 12BHOYA MANJIBHAI ZULUBHAIIndependent · IND1,1290.2%
- 13GAMIT KISHANBHAI NATUBHAIIndependent · IND1,0390.2%
- 14PATEL BABUBHAI CHHAGANBHAIIndependent · IND6570.1%
- 15PATEL RAMANBHAI MAGANBHAIIndependent · IND5640.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −18.7%
- INC share
- 61.0% → 46.7%
- BJP share
- 36.0% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- 47.0% → 46.6%