Constituency
38. Somnath
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1975
GJ-SOMNATH
INC 36.2%won by 7.1%BJS 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 51.0% to 7.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 34.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.3% between them, down from 89.9% — 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
46,085
Margin
3,290
7.14%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SHIEKH AVASHABEGUMSAHEB MOHAMMED ALIIndian National Congress · INC16,70136.2%
- 2DODIYA HAMIRSINH MANDABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,41129.1%
- 3CHUDASMA BIJALBHAI LALBHAIKLP · KLP9,34020.3%
- 4RAM BACHU LAKHAMANIndependent · IND3,3707.3%
- 5CHANDIYA JADAV VALAIndependent · IND1,9574.2%
- 6DAVANI RAMNIKLAL VRAJLALIndependent · IND7011.5%
- 7VAZA MANGAL JETHAIndependent · IND3320.7%
- 8MITHANI PRAFULACHANDRA MAGANLALIndependent · IND2730.6%
Since 1972
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −43.8%
- INC share
- 70.4% → 36.2%
- BJS share
- 19.5% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —