Constituency
126. Rajkot
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-RAJKOT
BJP 59.5%won by 26.7%NCP 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.9% to 26.7%.
- New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 1999.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.3% between them, down from 98.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.9% to 32.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
16,50,135
Turnout
32.6%
Valid votes
5,38,626
Margin
1,43,970
26.73%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1DR. KATHIRIA VALLABHBHAI RAMJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,20,60459.5%
- 2BALVANTBHAI BACHUBHAI MANVARNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,76,63432.8%
- 3KARANABHAI MALDHARIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP22,6664.2%
- 4MULTANI SUBHANBHAI POPATBHAIIndependent · IND12,8192.4%
- 5DALABHAI RAGHAVJIBHAI LORIYAIndependent · IND5,9031.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–NCP swing
- −30.6%
- BJP share
- 57.3% → 59.5%
- NCP share
- 0.0% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- 39.6% → 32.6%