Constituency
139. Banaskantha
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BANASKANTHA
BJP 53.1%won by 11.8%INC 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 11.8%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 42.1% to 53.1% of the vote here (+11.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.5% of the vote between them, up from 86.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 22.2% to 65.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,92,477
Turnout
65.9%
Valid votes
7,20,222
Margin
84,755
11.77%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAUDHARI HARIBHAI PARATHIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,82,71453.1%
- 2B.K. GADHVIIndian National Congress · INC2,97,95941.4%
- 3PRAJAPATI MANOHAR VITTHALBHAIJanata Dal · JD30,5264.2%
- 4TRIVEDI PREMSHANKAR NARAYANBHAIIndependent · IND6,8400.9%
- 5SOLANKI ISHWARLAL MULJIBHAIIndependent · IND2,1830.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +14.3%
- BJP share
- 42.1% → 53.1%
- INC share
- 44.6% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- 43.7% → 65.9%