Constituency
71. Kalol
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-KALOL
INC 51.2%won by 11.5%BJS 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.2% to 11.5%.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 39.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.9% of the vote between them, up from 76.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
55,757
Margin
6,385
11.45%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ARJUNSINH B RATHODIndian National Congress · INC28,52151.2%
- 2BHARATBHAI N PATELBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS22,13639.7%
- 3MAGANJI RAIJIJI THAKORIndependent · IND5,1009.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −34.1%
- INC share
- 45.6% → 51.2%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- — → —