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State: Gujarat
Constituency: Broach
Total Votes Polled: 458547
Winner: BJP Chandubhai Shanabhai Deshmukh 160700
Runner Up: GAVP Vasava Chhotubhai Amarbhai 136874
Margin: 23826 (5.33%)

In 1980 and 1984 C S Deshmukh of the BJP trailed behind the Congress candidate, before getting elected in 1989 with a whopping 57.7 % of the votes. He has since been re-elected in the two elections of 1991 and 1996, although in the last election his vote share came down to 35.94 %.

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