Constituency
133. Bhavnagar
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BHAVNAGAR
BJP 53.0%won by 14.5%INC 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.8% to 14.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.5% of the vote between them, up from 67.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.8% to 56.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,73,660
Turnout
56.0%
Valid votes
5,45,640
Margin
79,206
14.52%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJPSince 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +3.6%
- BJP share
- 34.7% → 53.0%
- INC share
- 23.8% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- 45.2% → 56.0%