Constituency
106. Himatnagar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1975
GJ-HIMATNAGAR
INC 39.4%won by 4.4%BJS 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.9% to 4.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from NCO (NCO) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.3% between them, down from 83.4% — 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
40,889
Margin
1,806
4.42%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL BHAGWANDAS HARIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC16,10039.4%
- 2SANKHALAL SHRIRAMBHAI NARSINHDASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,29435.0%
- 3PATEL SHANKERBHAI DEVJIBHAIKLP · KLP7,48318.3%
- 4MAKWANA AMARSINH KESHRISINHIndependent · IND1,8024.4%
- 5BHATT MADHUSUDAN DAHYALALIndependent · IND8262.0%
- 6ATHANIA DAUDBHAI NASIRBHAIIndependent · IND3840.9%
Since 1972
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −44.2%
- INC share
- 60.2% → 39.4%
- BJS share
- 11.5% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- — → —