Constituency
60. Asarwa
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-ASARWA
INC 56.6%won by 41.9%IND 14.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.7% to 41.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.4% between them, down from 85.6% — 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
50,733
Margin
21,241
41.87%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MAGANBHAI R BAROTIndian National Congress · INC28,74056.6%
- 2SOMCHAND J MAKVANAIndependent · IND7,49914.8%
- 3MANHARLAL T SHUKLAIndependent · IND6,63213.1%
- 4RATANLAL MANOHARLAL GUPTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,77011.4%
- 5P D GANDHICommunist Party of India · CPI2,0924.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +37.2%
- INC share
- 45.2% → 56.6%
- IND share
- 40.4% → 14.8%
- Turnout
- — → —