Constituency
160. Navsari
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-NAVSARI
INC 61.6%won by 32.8%NCO 28.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 32.8%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 28.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
39,326
Margin
12,899
32.80%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DINKERBHAI B DESAIIndian National Congress · INC24,22861.6%
- 2UNIA SULEMAN YUSUFNCO · NCO11,32928.8%
- 3DINESH CHANDRA SHANKARRAO CHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,7699.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −13.3%
- INC share
- 46.1% → 61.6%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 28.8%
- Turnout
- — → —