Constituency
132. Amreli
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-AMRELI
BJP 54.1%won by 25.0%INC 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.5% to 25.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.3% between them, down from 95.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 15.2% to 59.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,23,988
Turnout
59.4%
Valid votes
4,89,039
Margin
1,22,173
24.98%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1DILEEP SANGHANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,64,81454.1%
- 2KOTADIA MANUBHAI NARANBHAIIndian National Congress · INC1,42,64129.2%
- 3MANUBHAI MERAIRJP · AIRJP61,10312.5%
- 4MAHIDA UGABHAI RUPABHAIIndependent · IND10,4352.1%
- 5VAJUBHAI DHANAKJanata Dal · JD10,0462.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −5.5%
- BJP share
- 62.9% → 54.1%
- INC share
- 32.4% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- 44.1% → 59.4%