Constituency
8. Wadhwan
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-WADHWAN
INC 55.2%won by 34.1%NCO 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 34.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 25.8% to 55.2% of the vote here (+29.4%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 21.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.3% between them, down from 94.5% — 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
38,853
Margin
13,245
34.09%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1HASMUKHLAL MANILAL VORAIndian National Congress · INC21,44555.2%
- 2GIRDHARLAL NAGARDAS SHAHNCO · NCO8,20021.1%
- 3VINODCHANDRA B SHAHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,5559.1%
- 4SHANTIALAL P CHAMPANERIIndependent · IND3,3878.7%
- 5CHUNILAL POPATLAL CHUDGARIndependent · IND1,1332.9%
- 6MEGHAJIBHAI M MADHVIIndependent · IND5791.5%
- 7BAIJURAM MULJIBHAI DHAMELIndependent · IND5541.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- +8.2%
- INC share
- 25.8% → 55.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —