Constituency
136. Gandhinagar
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-GANDHINAGAR
BJP 59.9%won by 30.6%INC 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 30.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.1% of the vote between them, up from 59.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 14.0% to 50.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
17,83,182
Turnout
50.7%
Valid votes
9,04,339
Margin
2,76,701
30.60%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1ADVANI LALKRISHNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,41,34059.9%
- 2P. K. DATTAIndian National Congress · INC2,64,63929.3%
- 3CHAITANYA SHAMBHUMAHARAJAIRJP · AIRJP90,29010.0%
- 4PANDYA SANJIV MANISHANKERAJBP · AJBP4,0030.4%
- 5KESHAVAJI DEVASHI HARIJAN URF BHAGAT BHALAVALAIndependent · IND1,4080.2%
- 6NARAYAN DIGWANISVSP · SVSP1,0310.1%
- 7PRAHALADBHAI RATILAL GUPTAIndependent · IND8700.1%
- 8KAKA JOGINDERSINGH URF \DHARATIPAKAD\Independent · IND7580.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +17.7%
- BJP share
- 33.1% → 59.9%
- INC share
- 20.2% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- 64.8% → 50.7%