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State: Gujarat
Constituency: Ahmadabad
Total Votes Polled: 352150
Winner: BJP Harin Pathak 210967
Runner Up: INC Irshad Mirza 112450
Margin: 98517 (28.63%)

Chimanbhai Mehta fought the 1996 election as an Independent and won 1.92 % of the vote, the electorate voting overwhelmingly in favour of the BJP's Harin Pathak, who has been elected from here since 1989. Winning 58.6 % of the vote the first time he was elected, in 1996 Patel had increased his tally to 61.31 %.

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