Constituency
26. Jamjodhpur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-JAMJODHPUR
INC 37.2%won by 16.3%IND 20.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 16.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.5% to 37.2% of the vote here (−5.3%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 20.9% — it polled just 1.5% in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.1% between them, down from 98.1% — 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
32,324
Margin
5,261
16.28%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1GORDHAN RAVJI FALDUIndian National Congress · INC12,02537.2%
- 2VALJI VIRJI BHADANIAIndependent · IND6,76420.9%
- 3DOLATBAI VASANTRAI BHATTNCO · NCO4,41613.7%
- 4JADEJA V DANUBHAIndependent · IND3,1739.8%
- 5PADALIA J VALJI KOLIIndependent · IND1,6004.9%
- 6BATHAWAR AMARSHI HAMIRIndependent · IND1,4684.5%
- 7VIRJI RAM SUTARIAIndependent · IND1,4484.5%
- 8SATRUSHAILYASINH K JBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6812.1%
- 9BALWANTSANG B JADEJAIndependent · IND2820.9%
- 10VASANTRAI L NINDOCHAIndependent · IND2630.8%
- 11KANTILAL R MARADIAIndependent · IND2040.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −24.7%
- INC share
- 42.5% → 37.2%
- IND share
- 1.5% → 20.9%
- Turnout
- — → —