Constituency
76. Vijapur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-VIJAPUR
INC 41.8%won by 14.1%NCO 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 14.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 27.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
54,473
Margin
7,685
14.11%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1GANGARAM CHUNILAL RAVALIndian National Congress · INC22,77241.8%
- 2HARJIVANBHAI I PATELNCO · NCO15,08727.7%
- 3TRIBHOVANDAS G PATELIndependent · IND8,92816.4%
- 4DAHYABHAI C PATELBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,68614.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −38.1%
- INC share
- 52.2% → 41.8%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —