Constituency
146. Surat
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-SURAT
BJP 56.7%won by 16.8%INC 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.5% to 16.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.1% to 37.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
23,77,198
Turnout
37.7%
Valid votes
8,96,276
Margin
1,50,563
16.80%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1KASHIRAM RANABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,08,07656.7%
- 2CHANDRAVADAN CHHOTUBHAI PITHAWALAIndian National Congress · INC3,57,51339.9%
- 3SANDIS MAVJIBHAI LAXMANBHAIIndependent · IND14,0261.6%
- 4PATEL ARJUNBHAI BHIKHABHAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,9590.9%
- 5NAGMAL PRABHAKAR SOMABHAIIndependent · IND5,7050.6%
- 6GOVINDBHAI LAXMANBHAI RATHODIndependent · IND2,9970.3%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −23.7%
- BJP share
- 68.8% → 56.7%
- INC share
- 28.4% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- 31.6% → 37.7%