Constituency
81. Patan
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1967
GJ-PATAN
INC 57.5%won by 22.2%SWA 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.8% to 22.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
50,576
Margin
11,203
22.15%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1V.M. TRIVEDIIndian National Congress · INC29,08357.5%
- 2S.M. SHAHSwatantra Party · SWA17,88035.4%
- 3M.R. BAROTSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP3,2926.5%
- 4H.C. GANDHIIndependent · IND3210.6%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −11.7%
- INC share
- 64.4% → 57.5%
- SWA share
- 30.6% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- — → —