Constituency
20. Dhoraji
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-DHORAJI
INC 46.3%won by 16.4%IND 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.6% to 16.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Swatantra Party (SWA) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.2% between them, down from 91.2% — 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
35,667
Margin
5,844
16.38%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1NATHALAL GOKALDAS PATELIndian National Congress · INC16,50846.3%
- 2RAMJI BHURABHAI MAVANIIndependent · IND10,66429.9%
- 3KARSHANBHAI R PATELBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,20614.6%
- 4GHETIYA J THAKARSHINCO · NCO3,2899.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −25.5%
- INC share
- 48.4% → 46.3%
- IND share
- 6.5% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —