Constituency
132. Dabhoi
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-DABHOI
INC 52.5%won by 19.2%NCO 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.0% to 52.5% of the vote here (+8.5%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 33.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.8% between them, down from 91.5% — 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
42,890
Margin
8,237
19.20%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KALIDAS JETHABHAI CHAUHANIndian National Congress · INC22,51152.5%
- 2AMBALAL NAGJIBHAI PATELNCO · NCO14,27433.3%
- 3JAYANT N PARIKHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,24612.2%
- 4MOTISINGH DADABHAI SOLANKIIndependent · IND8592.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −24.8%
- INC share
- 44.0% → 52.5%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —