Constituency
154. Chorasi
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-CHORASI
INC 59.7%won by 23.9%NCO 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.5% to 23.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 35.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 87.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
43,954
Margin
10,516
23.93%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1C NARASINHBHAI CONTRACTORIndian National Congress · INC26,25159.7%
- 2BALLUBHAI D DESAINCO · NCO15,73535.8%
- 3BABUBHAI M HAJIRAWALAIndependent · IND1,3443.1%
- 4CHANDRAKANT BABULAL SHAHIndependent · IND6241.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −40.7%
- INC share
- 64.7% → 59.7%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- — → —