Constituency
148. Broach
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BROACH
BJP 21.0%won by 3.2%BJP 17.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.3% to 3.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 38.8% between them, down from 66.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 17.2% to 60.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,49,182
Turnout
60.7%
Valid votes
12,54,701
Margin
40,518
3.23%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1Mansukhbhai VasavaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,63,49921.0%
- 2CHANDUBHAI SHANABHAI DESHMUKHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,22,98117.8%
- 3Kakuji Iqbalbhai Mohmedbhai (Iqbal Kakuji)Indian National Congress · INC2,12,01116.9%
- 4KAKUJI IQBALBHAI MAHAMMEDBHAI (IQBAL KAKUJI)Indian National Congress · INC2,11,37216.8%
- 5VASAVA CHHOTUBHAI AMARSANGJanata Dal · JD1,45,77311.6%
- 6Vasava Chhotubhai AmarsangJanata Dal · JD1,39,16011.1%
- 7GAMBHIRSINH SARDARSINH PARMARAIRJP · AIRJP51,3644.1%
- 8SHEIKH BURHANUDDIN FIROJRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,5800.2%
- 9TARSADIYA GULABSINH BHAGWANSINHIndependent · IND1,5380.1%
- 10VASAVA MOHANBHAI JESANGBHAIIndependent · IND1,0610.1%
- 11Vasava Dineshbhai ShivabhaiIndependent · IND9470.1%
- 12Saiyed Mohammed Saieed Mohammed SabIndependent · IND6480.1%
- 13Patel Shashikantbhai BhagavandasIndependent · IND5260.0%
- 14A. Latif A. Gani Shaikh (Advocate)Independent · IND4330.0%
- 15Pathan Salimkhan AlikhanIndependent · IND4320.0%
- 16Vasava BachubhaiIndependent · IND3760.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BJP swing
- 0.0%
- BJP share
- 35.9% → 21.0%
- BJP share
- 35.9% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- 43.5% → 60.7%