Constituency
130. Porbandar
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-PORBANDAR
BJP 53.1%won by 26.3%INC 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.2% to 26.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.0% between them, down from 92.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 21.2% to 54.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,81,831
Turnout
54.9%
Valid votes
4,84,512
Margin
1,27,288
26.27%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1JAVIYA GORDHANBHAI JADAVBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,57,51653.1%
- 2ODEDARA BHARATBHAI MALDEVJIIndian National Congress · INC1,30,22826.9%
- 3KALARIYA PARSOTAM GANGJIAIRJP · AIRJP89,07118.4%
- 4BAPODARA BHANU BHIMAIndependent · IND4,4440.9%
- 5CHUDASAMA BHARATSINH CHHANUBHAIndependent · IND3,2530.7%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +1.0%
- BJP share
- 59.0% → 53.1%
- INC share
- 33.8% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- 33.7% → 54.9%