Constituency
61. Khadia
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1967
GJ-KHADIA
PSP 59.7%won by 35.1%INC 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.2% to 35.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 93.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatPraja Socialist Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
37,188
Margin
13,067
35.14%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PSP- 1M. G. SHASTRIPraja Socialist Party · PSP22,20859.7%
- 2B. R. BHATTIndian National Congress · INC9,14124.6%
- 3V. N. GAJENDRAGADKARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,5559.6%
- 4P. V. PATELIndependent · IND1,8034.8%
- 5A. J. SHAHIndependent · IND4811.3%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- +10.0%
- PSP share
- 59.1% → 59.7%
- INC share
- 33.9% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —