Constituency
137. Bhavnagar
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-BHAVNAGAR
BJP 34.2%won by 0.9%INC 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.1% to 0.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.5% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.1% to 45.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,81,619
Turnout
45.1%
Valid votes
6,23,301
Margin
5,893
0.95%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1RAJENDRASINH GHANSHYAMSINH RANA (RAJUBHAI RANA)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,13,37634.2%
- 2GOHILMAHAVIRSINHBHAGIRATHSINHIndian National Congress · INC2,07,48333.3%
- 3ZADAFIA GORDHANBHAI PRAGJIBHAIMJP · MJP1,56,57025.1%
- 4HARIN RAMNIKLAL MAKWANAIndependent · IND12,2612.0%
- 5M.I.SOLANKIIndependent · IND5,9691.0%
- 6VALJIBHAI B. BORICHABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,8970.6%
- 7GOHIL NANAJIBHAI MADHABHAIRPIA · RPIA3,5180.6%
- 8CHOUHAN DHIRUBHAI KARSHANBHAIIndependent · IND3,2780.5%
- 9PUNANI MUKESHBHI MAGANBHAIIndependent · IND2,9120.5%
- 10NARESHBHAI NANJIBHAI SONANIIndependent · IND2,4750.4%
- 11YADAV(KOLI) TULSHIBHAI RAMJIBHAISamajwadi Party · SP2,3730.4%
- 12CHUDASAMA MEPABHAI MAVJIBHAIIndependent · IND2,3130.4%
- 13KATARIYA JINABHAI NAGJIBHAIIndependent · IND2,0970.3%
- 14ATUL HARSHADRAY PANDYABNJD · BNJD1,8820.3%
- 15DABHI DEVJIBHAI MEGHABHAISJPR · SJPR1,8100.3%
- 16SAPARIYA DINESH NANUBHAILPSP · LPSP1,0870.2%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −17.1%
- BJP share
- 55.6% → 34.2%
- INC share
- 37.5% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- 36.0% → 45.1%