Constituency
168. Umbergaon
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-UMBERGAON
INC 64.9%won by 39.2%NCO 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 54.0% to 39.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 25.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.5% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
31,541
Margin
12,358
39.18%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KIKLABHAI J VARLIIndian National Congress · INC20,45564.9%
- 2SATUBHAI D THAKARIANCO · NCO8,09725.7%
- 3LAXMANBHAI N PATELBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,9436.2%
- 4KESURBHAI RAGHABHAI PATELIndependent · IND1,0463.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −37.8%
- INC share
- 77.0% → 64.9%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —