Constituency
70. Shahpur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1975
GJ-SHAHPUR
BJS 52.7%won by 23.3%INC 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 23.3%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 16.2% to 52.7% of the vote here (+36.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.0% of the vote between them, up from 57.9% — 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
46,803
Margin
10,914
23.32%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJS- 1PATEL PRAMODCHANDRA CHANDULALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS24,64552.7%
- 2PATEL MAHENDRAKUMAR GOKALDASIndian National Congress · INC13,73129.3%
- 3KURAISHI NIZAMUDDIN KUTBHDDINIndependent · IND6,23413.3%
- 4SHAH CHINUBHAI KESAHVLALIndependent · IND8681.9%
- 5PATEL KANUBHAI SHANABHAIKLP · KLP6641.4%
- 6NAZIR KURAISHIIndependent · IND2990.6%
- 7K.S. CHAUDHARIIndependent · IND2960.6%
- 8MOHMED YUSUF JAMALUDDIN NAGORIIndependent · IND660.1%
Since 1972
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +44.4%
- BJS share
- 16.2% → 52.7%
- INC share
- 37.3% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → —