Constituency
21. Upleta
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-UPLETA
INC 57.1%won by 19.8%NCO 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.5% to 19.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.5% of the vote between them, up from 75.1% — 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
27,755
Margin
5,499
19.81%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1GOVINDLAL KESHAVJI PATELIndian National Congress · INC15,86157.1%
- 2VACHHANI NANJI AMBABHAINCO · NCO10,36237.3%
- 3MERAM NARAN BABARIAIndependent · IND8823.2%
- 4TANSUKHLAL D SHETHIndependent · IND6502.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −28.0%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 57.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- — → —