Constituency
61. Khadia
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-KHADIA
INC 39.2%won by 10.6%SOP 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.6% to 39.2% of the vote here (+14.6%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 28.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.8% between them, down from 84.3% — 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
39,287
Margin
4,170
10.61%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1AJIT PATELIndian National Congress · INC15,40139.2%
- 2JAYENDRABHAI T PANDITSOP · SOP11,23128.6%
- 3ASHOKKUMAR C BHATTBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,60221.9%
- 4CHANDRAKANT M PATELNCO · NCO3,8239.7%
- 5INDUPRASAD M KACHHIAHMS · HMS1360.3%
- 6JASUBHAI MANILAL PANDYAIndependent · IND940.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −14.0%
- INC share
- 24.6% → 39.2%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —