Constituency
97. Modasa
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-MODASA
INC 47.8%won by 31.2%BJS 16.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 31.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.9% to 47.8% of the vote here (+14.9%).
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 16.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.4% between them, down from 74.4% — 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
45,824
Margin
14,288
31.18%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1AMBALAL J UPADHYAYIndian National Congress · INC21,90547.8%
- 2BHANUPRASAD R PATELBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,61716.6%
- 3CHHABILDAS SOMABHAI SHAHNCO · NCO7,57416.5%
- 4RAMSINH HARISINH THAKORIndependent · IND5,96413.0%
- 5DAHYABHAI RAMABHAI VANKARIndependent · IND1,4533.2%
- 6KACHARBHAI D PATELSwatantra Party · SWA7581.7%
- 7BHURAJI GALABJI MAKWANAIndependent · IND3310.7%
- 8RANMABHAI PAMABHAI VANKARIndependent · IND2220.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- −1.8%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 47.8%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 16.6%
- Turnout
- — → —