Constituency
23. Jamnagar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-JAMNAGAR
IND 50.1%won by 13.0%INC 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 13.0%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 22.8% to 50.1% of the vote here (+27.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.3% of the vote between them, up from 75.5% — 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
40,956
Margin
5,315
12.98%
Candidates
9 contested · winner IND- 1LILADHAR PRANJIVAN PATELIndependent · IND20,53450.1%
- 2HAMIRKHA KHATIJA ALARAKHAIndian National Congress · INC15,21937.2%
- 3KESHAVLAL N DHANANIIndependent · IND2,1225.2%
- 4BHIKHUBHAI VAGHELACommunist Party of India · CPI1,8974.6%
- 5SUKHLAL AMRITLAL METAIndependent · IND5691.4%
- 6MADHUSUDAN C PUROHITIndependent · IND2590.6%
- 7KARUNASHANKER D ACHARYAIndependent · IND2230.5%
- 8ISHWARDAN KARNIDAN GADHVIIndependent · IND670.2%
- 9KHETSHI LADHABHAI GORIIndependent · IND660.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +11.2%
- IND share
- 22.8% → 50.1%
- INC share
- 21.0% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- — → —