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Kutch #1SC
Won
Gadhvi Pushpadan Shambhudan
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
1,01,972 32.2 pp
votes
over Dinesh Trivedi (INC)
The contest
Electors8,26,716
Votes polled3,16,711
Turnout38.3%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.14 L50.0% of electorate
Female electors4.13 L50.0% of electorate
Sex ratio
999females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gadhvi Pushpadan Shambhudan | BJP | 1,93,549 | 61.10% | |
| 2 | Dinesh Trivedi | INC | 91,577 | 28.90% | |
| 3 | Padhiyar Haji Jakab Bava | IND | 5,290 | 1.70% | |
| 4 | Parmar Babulal Vasanbhai | IND | 3,285 | 1.00% | |
| 5 | Josab Husen Sama | JD | 3,186 | 1.00% | |
| 6 | Patel Bharatkumar Manji | IND | 2,360 | 0.70% | |
| 7 | Joshi Kharashankar Vithaldas | AIICT | 2,343 | 0.70% | |
| 8 | Shah Paresh Vrajlal | IND | 962 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | K.K. Thakkar (ENGINEER) | SP | 895 | 0.30% | |
| 10 | Shivjibhai Ramjibhai Sorathiya | SS | 795 | 0.30% | |
| 11 | Jayantilal Govindji Thakkar | IND | 745 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Kamalkant Kantilal Bhatt | ICS | 675 | 0.20% | |
| 13 | Pandya Prabhulal Amrutlal | IND | 578 | 0.20% | |
| 14 | Virbhan Achra | IND | 430 | 0.10% | |
| 15 | Karamsi Veljibhai Motharia | IND | 381 | 0.10% | |
| 16 | Ashok Solanki | IND | 368 | 0.10% | |
| 17 | Khemchand Budharam | IND | 355 | 0.10% | |
| 18 | Meman Ibrahim Lalmamad | IND | 336 | 0.10% | |
| 19 | Kapdi Premji Ramji Bhai | RPI | 303 | 0.10% | |
| 20 | Haribhai Naran Varchand | IND | 130 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 8,168, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 308,543 · NOTA n/a · published 316,711 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12