Constituency
59. Dariapur-Kazipur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-DARIAPUR-KAZIPUR
INC 62.1%won by 46.6%IND 15.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.9% to 46.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 90.3% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
56,876
Margin
26,526
46.64%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MANUBHAI PALKHIWALAIndian National Congress · INC35,30762.1%
- 2BACHUBHAI SHUKLAIndependent · IND8,78115.4%
- 3BIHARILAL CHUNILAL SHARMABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,6449.9%
- 4DINKER MEHTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,3547.7%
- 5BALURAM GUPTAIndependent · IND2,5544.5%
- 6DARIDRANARAYAN SHARMAIndependent · IND2360.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +43.7%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 62.1%
- IND share
- 43.7% → 15.4%
- Turnout
- — → —