Constituency
138. Patan
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-PATAN
BJP 46.3%won by 20.4%AIRJP 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.9% to 20.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAIRJP (AIRJP) finished second with 25.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.2% between them, down from 88.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 33.3% to 64.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,76,716
Turnout
64.9%
Valid votes
6,34,166
Margin
1,29,519
20.42%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1KANODIYA MAHESHKUMAR MITHABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,93,80046.3%
- 2CHAVDA MAHENDRAKUMAR KHEMCHANDBHAIAIRJP · AIRJP1,64,28125.9%
- 3PARMAR VINODKUMAR MOTIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC1,61,81825.5%
- 4SOLANKI SEVANTILAL KALABHAIJanata Dal · JD10,4561.6%
- 5PARMAR KANTABEN MAFATLALIndependent · IND3,8110.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AIRJP swing
- −38.4%
- BJP share
- 58.8% → 46.3%
- AIRJP share
- 0.0% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- 31.6% → 64.9%