Constituency
67. Naroda
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-NARODA
INC 56.2%won by 29.6%NCO 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.2% to 29.6%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 26.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- 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
64,927
Margin
19,235
29.63%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1VISHINDAS M MATIANIIndian National Congress · INC36,51056.2%
- 2RAMA LAL VITHAIBHAI PATELNCO · NCO17,27526.6%
- 3RUPCHAND R WADHWANIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,14217.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −21.8%
- INC share
- 51.5% → 56.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —