Constituency
135. Baroda City
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-BARODA-CITY
INC 48.9%won by 14.5%BJS 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.5% to 48.9% of the vote here (+14.3%).
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 34.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.2% between them, down from 90.1% — 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
41,913
Margin
6,092
14.53%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDRAKANT M PARIKHIndian National Congress · INC20,48048.9%
- 2SHANKER LAL VERIBHAI PATELBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,38834.3%
- 3DAYABHAI K PATELIndependent · IND6,14414.7%
- 4JAYANTILAL BAOJIBHAI PATELSwatantra Party · SWA4941.2%
- 5GIRDHARILAL G DEMALAIndependent · IND1720.4%
- 6TULSIDAS VALIBHAI PAREKHIndependent · IND1300.3%
- 7G GULAMMOHMMED CHINWALASOP · SOP1050.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- −20.0%
- INC share
- 34.5% → 48.9%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —