Constituency
143. Godhra
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-GODHRA
INC 34.5%won by 6.8%BJP 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.0% to 6.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.2% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 25.9% to 57.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,02,945
Turnout
57.9%
Valid votes
5,80,697
Margin
39,248
6.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL SHANTILAL PARSHOTAMDASIndian National Congress · INC2,00,16834.5%
- 2SOLANKI GOPALSINHJEE GULABSINHJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,60,92027.7%
- 3CHAUHAN CHHATRASINH KALUSINHAIRJP · AIRJP1,20,40920.7%
- 4PATEL KISHORBHAI BHULABHAIJanata Dal · JD64,21011.1%
- 5POCHA MAHMADIRFAN YUSUFBHAISamajwadi Party · SP34,9906.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +5.7%
- INC share
- 47.7% → 34.5%
- BJP share
- 46.7% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- 32.0% → 57.9%