Constituency
171. Surat City West
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1998
GJ-SURAT-CITY-WEST
BJP 70.0%won by 44.0%INC 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 40.8% to 44.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.1% of the vote between them, up from 89.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,00,293
Margin
44,127
44.00%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1CHAPATWALA HEMANTBHAI CHAMPAKLALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP70,25470.0%
- 2RANA URMILABEN JAGDISHBHAIIndian National Congress · INC26,12726.1%
- 3PROF. RAMUBHAI Z. PATELAIRJP · AIRJP1,6041.6%
- 4SHOKATALI MUNSHISamajwadi Party · SP7850.8%
- 5SHAIKH AFZAL RANGUNIIndependent · IND6690.7%
- 6PATEL MANHARBHAI GOMANBHAIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD4830.5%
- 7PATEL KANTILAL DHURABHAIIndependent · IND1970.2%
- 8JAYESH GOVINDBHAI VADHELIndependent · IND1740.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +3.2%
- BJP share
- 64.9% → 70.0%
- INC share
- 24.1% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —