Constituency
39. Babra
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-BABRA
INC 44.8%won by 16.1%NCO 28.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.8% to 16.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 28.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.5% between them, down from 80.7% — 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
39,886
Margin
6,425
16.11%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1J MOHANBHAI VAGADIAIndian National Congress · INC17,87744.8%
- 2MANG OLIA ARJAN VELJINCO · NCO11,45228.7%
- 3JINABHAI D KANASAGARAIndependent · IND6,64016.6%
- 4CHHAGANBHAI B BARAIYASwatantra Party · SWA2,4506.1%
- 5LUVAR MANSUR KHODAIndependent · IND1,4673.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −37.6%
- INC share
- 53.7% → 44.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 28.7%
- Turnout
- — → —