Constituency
8. Wadhwan
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-WADHWAN
INC 57.1%won by 22.2%JNP 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.6% to 57.1% of the vote here (+14.5%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 34.9% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.0% between them, down from 99.0% — 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
36,612
Margin
8,136
22.22%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1ACHARYA ARVINDKUMAR PRANJIVANBHAIIndian National Congress · INC20,90757.1%
- 2PARMAR JUVANSINH JILUBHABHAIJanata Party · JNP12,77134.9%
- 3RANA KIRITSINHI GOVINDSINHJIIndependent · IND1,8985.2%
- 4GHANCHI ALI BHAJI KALUBHAIIndependent · IND3450.9%
- 5TRIVEDI JAYAPRAKASH MAYASHANKERIndependent · IND2220.6%
- 6RAVAL CHANDRAVADAN GIRJASHANKERINCU · INCU1600.4%
- 7NARANBHAI MULUBHAI GADHVIIndependent · IND1580.4%
- 8MAKASANA SHIVLAL ANANDJIIndependent · IND1510.4%
Since 1975
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- −20.3%
- INC share
- 42.6% → 57.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- — → —