Constituency
74. Mehsana
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-MEHSANA
INC 50.1%won by 23.2%NCO 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.6% to 50.1% of the vote here (+10.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 26.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.0% between them, down from 94.8% — 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
47,885
Margin
11,128
23.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DAYASHANKAR V TRIVEDIIndian National Congress · INC23,99150.1%
- 2PURUSHOTAMDAS R PATELNCO · NCO12,86326.9%
- 3VIRSANGBHAI VELJIBHAI CBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,72720.3%
- 4KESUBHAI H PATELSwatantra Party · SWA1,3042.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −16.4%
- INC share
- 39.6% → 50.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → —