Constituency
90. Palanpur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1967
GJ-PALANPUR
INC 45.0%won by 3.9%SWA 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.9% to 3.9%.
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 10.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.2% of the vote between them, up from 76.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
33,204
Margin
1,282
3.86%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1A.C. MEHTAIndian National Congress · INC14,94645.0%
- 2R.A. PATELSwatantra Party · SWA13,66441.2%
- 3C.M. JAINIndependent · IND2,0896.3%
- 4U.M. PANCHALIndependent · IND1,0673.2%
- 5B.M. JAGIRDARSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP6391.9%
- 6K.N. NAAGORIIndependent · IND4841.5%
- 7G.I. PATELIndependent · IND3150.9%
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
- −30.0%
- INC share
- 55.0% → 45.0%
- SWA share
- 21.1% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- — → —