Constituency
131. Sankheda
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-SANKHEDA
INC 61.7%won by 42.1%NCO 19.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 45.5% to 42.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 19.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% 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
43,564
Margin
18,352
42.13%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −30.6%
- INC share
- 72.8% → 61.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 19.6%
- Turnout
- — → —