Constituency
49. Botad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-BOTAD
INC 60.5%won by 21.1%NCO 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.8% to 21.1%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 39.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 84.7% — 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
34,406
Margin
7,254
21.08%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1U P C SINHJI G SINHJIIndian National Congress · INC20,83060.5%
- 2KANTILAL MANSUKHLAL SHAHNCO · NCO13,57639.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −35.7%
- INC share
- 56.8% → 60.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- — → —