Constituency
66. Rakhial
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-RAKHIAL
INC 64.6%won by 36.6%IND 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.9% to 36.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 83.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
65,131
Margin
23,855
36.63%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1KANTILAL GHIYAIndian National Congress · INC42,04964.6%
- 2NAVINCHANDRA M BARUTIndependent · IND18,19427.9%
- 3BALVANTRAY G DAVEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,2965.1%
- 4AMRATLAL MOTILAL BAROTIndependent · IND8811.4%
- 5LAHRISINGH CHAUHANSOP · SOP3900.6%
- 6NARENDRABHAI N DESAIIndependent · IND1320.2%
- 7BHOGILAL HARILAL DAVEIndependent · IND1240.2%
- 8IKRAMALI M SAYYEDIndependent · IND650.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +20.7%
- INC share
- 49.7% → 64.6%
- IND share
- 33.8% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —