Constituency
139. Padra
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-PADRA
INC 41.4%won by 11.4%NCO 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.2% to 11.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 30.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.4% between them, down from 90.7% — 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
51,616
Margin
5,896
11.42%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MANUBHAI CHHOTABHAI PATELIndian National Congress · INC21,37341.4%
- 2JASVANTLAL S SHAHNCO · NCO15,47730.0%
- 3KHODUBHAI A VAGHELABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,99425.2%
- 4DINESHBHAI A BHAVSARSOP · SOP1,0912.1%
- 5SHANTILAL B PATELIndependent · IND6811.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −43.0%
- INC share
- 54.5% → 41.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —