Constituency
165. Mota Pondha
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-MOTA-PONDHA
INC 64.3%won by 39.6%NCO 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.0% to 39.6%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 24.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.0% between them, down from 94.2% — 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
22,685
Margin
8,976
39.57%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BHAGWAN BHAI SOMABHAI DHANPIndian National Congress · INC14,58564.3%
- 2PUNABHAI GOPALBHAI PATELNCO · NCO5,60924.7%
- 3RUPJIBHAI SOMABHAI GAMITSwatantra Party · SWA2,49111.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −9.0%
- INC share
- 48.6% → 64.3%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —