Constituency
36. Junagadh
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-JUNAGADH
INC 44.4%won by 23.2%IND 21.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 23.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.5% between them, down from 90.8% — 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
37,742
Margin
8,755
23.20%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1DIVYAKANT K MANAVATIIndian National Congress · INC16,73944.4%
- 2GORDHANBHAI G PATELIndependent · IND7,98421.2%
- 3A MD SHAFIA KARIMIndependent · IND5,62514.9%
- 4PRANLAL JIVARAJ VYASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,93113.1%
- 5KANUBHAI P MANDAVIYANCO · NCO1,1393.0%
- 6CHHAGANLAL DAYABHAI KAKADIndependent · IND5101.4%
- 7VINUBHAI MAHENDRALAL RANAIndependent · IND4531.2%
- 8MULAJI DAYABHAI SOLANKIIndependent · IND2630.7%
- 9HIMATLAL DEVENDRA DESAIIndependent · IND980.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −16.7%
- INC share
- 45.7% → 44.4%
- IND share
- 5.8% → 21.2%
- Turnout
- — → —