Constituency
154. Chorasi
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1967
GJ-CHORASI
INC 64.7%won by 41.5%SWA 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.7% to 41.5%.
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 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Swatantra Party (SWA).
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
40,234
Margin
16,710
41.53%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1U. P. S. BHATTIndian National Congress · INC26,01364.7%
- 2V. N. MAHIDASwatantra Party · SWA9,30323.1%
- 3M. A. BARADIndependent · IND2,4286.0%
- 4M. P. R. BARIAIndependent · IND1,4113.5%
- 5K. S. PATELSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,0792.7%
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
- −16.7%
- INC share
- 68.6% → 64.7%
- SWA share
- 10.3% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —