What a three-way contest entails for Gujarat polls

Political contests in the state of Gujarat, after the 1990 assembly election, have been always bipolar with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the first place and the Congress in the second. Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) entry in the electoral contest this time may change this long-term trend in the western state, which is also the BJP’S strongest bastion (it is a measure of the party’s dominance that it has more than one). If the AAP does manage to get a vote share to reckon with and the contest does become triangular, what impact will it have on the state’s politics? Here are four charts that answer this question.