Constituency
129. Rajkot
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-RAJKOT
BJP 57.3%won by 15.9%INC 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 53.3% to 15.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 41.4% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.7% of the vote between them, up from 91.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.2% to 39.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,79,914
Turnout
39.6%
Valid votes
5,46,230
Margin
86,747
15.88%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1Dr Kathiriya Vallabhbhai RamjibhaiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,12,94157.3%
- 2Radadiya Vithalbhai HansarajbhaiIndian National Congress · INC2,26,19441.4%
- 3Parmar Vijaybhai SomabhaiBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,9730.5%
- 4Sakariya Babubhai KarshanbhaiIndependent · IND1,6810.3%
- 5Soni Mahajan Narendrabhai AmrutlalJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,3860.3%
- 6Govani Sureshkumar MadhavajibhaiIndependent · IND1,0550.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −56.4%
- BJP share
- 72.3% → 57.3%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- 48.8% → 39.6%