Constituency
130. Bhavnagar
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-BHAVNAGAR
BJP 55.6%won by 18.1%INC 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.3% to 18.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 93.1% between them, down from 98.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.5% to 36.0%.
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Electorate
12,36,416
Turnout
36.0%
Valid votes
4,44,831
Margin
80,426
18.08%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1RANA RAJENDRASINH GHANASHYAMSINH (RAJUBHAI RANA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,47,33655.6%
- 2GIGABHAI BHAVUBHAI GOHIL (GIGABHAI GOHIL)Indian National Congress · INC1,66,91037.5%
- 3KHERALA DILIPKUMAR MANAJIBHAIIndependent · IND12,5442.8%
- 4MAKWANA MEGHJIBHAI MAVJIBHAISamajwadi Party · SP10,0932.3%
- 5GOSWAMI DHIRAJGIRI BALDEVGIRIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,9481.8%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −5.2%
- BJP share
- 61.0% → 55.6%
- INC share
- 37.7% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- 42.5% → 36.0%