Constituency
125. Petlad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-PETLAD
INC 45.1%won by 8.4%NCO 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 8.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 36.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.8% 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
48,466
Margin
4,071
8.40%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRABHUDAS S. PATELIndian National Congress · INC21,86445.1%
- 2FULABHAI VARDHABHAI PATELNCO · NCO17,79336.7%
- 3JAYENDRABHAI V. BHATTBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,3609.0%
- 4JASHBHAI BHUNIBHAI PATELSwatantra Party · SWA3,1486.5%
- 5ZAVERBHAI B. PATELIndependent · IND6221.3%
- 6PATANWADIA S. BHIKHABHAIIndependent · IND5211.1%
- 7MATHURSINH J. VAGHELAIndependent · IND1580.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −41.8%
- INC share
- 50.2% → 45.1%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —