Constituency
134. Dhandhuka
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-DHANDHUKA
BJP 44.4%won by 2.8%INC 41.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.7% to 2.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.9% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 27.6% to 59.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,83,991
Turnout
59.6%
Valid votes
5,86,220
Margin
16,395
2.80%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1VARMA RATILAL KALIDASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,60,06144.4%
- 2CHAVDA MOTIBHAI MAVJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC2,43,66641.6%
- 3PRAVINCHANDRA RASHTRAPALAIRJP · AIRJP74,87612.8%
- 4CHAVDA NARANBHAI DAHYABHAI (BHAGAT)LSWP · LSWP2,5030.4%
- 5GOVINDBHAI JADAV (JADAV GOVINDBHAI RAMJIBHAI)Janata Dal · JD2,2620.4%
- 6KESHAVLAL KUBERBHAI MAKWANA (K.K.MAKWANA)RPI · RPI2,1000.4%
- 7ZALA JETHABHAI SAMABHAIIndependent · IND7520.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −6.9%
- BJP share
- 51.4% → 44.4%
- INC share
- 41.7% → 41.6%
- Turnout
- 31.9% → 59.6%