Constituency
70. Gandhi Nagar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-GANDHI-NAGAR
INC 39.5%won by 7.7%NCO 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.7%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.3% between them, down from 84.0% — 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
67,073
Margin
5,198
7.75%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1NAREDRASINH A JHALAIndian National Congress · INC26,50139.5%
- 2MOTIBHAI BAKORBHAI PATELNCO · NCO21,30331.8%
- 3VADILAL B PATELBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS16,72024.9%
- 4MAGANBHAI I PATELIndependent · IND1,5792.4%
- 5BABULAL TRIKAMLAL PARMARIndependent · IND9701.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −32.9%
- INC share
- 40.6% → 39.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —