Constituency
58. Bhavnagar South
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 2002
GJ-BHAVNAGAR-SOUTH
BJP 51.7%won by 8.2%INC 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.9% to 8.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.2% — a tighter two-way 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
1,22,281
Margin
10,034
8.21%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1OZA SUNIL BALKRISHNABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP63,17251.7%
- 2GOHIL SHAKTISINHJI HARISHCHANDRASINHJIIndian National Congress · INC53,13843.5%
- 3MAKWANA JESINGBHAI MALJIBHAIIndependent · IND3,1702.6%
- 4PATEL MAHESHBHAI BALUBHAIIndependent · IND1,2641.0%
- 5YADAV VELJIBHAI LAKHABHAISamajwadi Party · SP1,1350.9%
- 6PATHAN NASHIRKHAN HUSEINBHAIIndependent · IND4020.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −2.7%
- BJP share
- 46.0% → 51.7%
- INC share
- 35.1% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —