Constituency
5. Anjar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-ANJAR
INC 43.2%won by 17.4%BJS 25.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.2% to 17.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 25.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.0% between them, down from 86.2% — the field split more ways.
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
44,963
Margin
7,824
17.40%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1KHEEMJI JESANGIndian National Congress · INC19,41943.2%
- 2CHATUR T GHANDUMALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,59525.8%
- 3RUSTAMJI NASARVANJI PARSIIndependent · IND7,47616.6%
- 4NARSINH RAVAJI AYACHICommunist Party of India · CPI4,56710.2%
- 5JETHALAL KALYANJIIndependent · IND1,3232.9%
- 6DEVJI RAVJIIndependent · IND5831.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −33.3%
- INC share
- 50.7% → 43.2%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 25.8%
- Turnout
- — → —