Constituency
32. Porbandar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-PORBANDAR
INC 48.0%won by 18.7%JNP 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.2% to 48.0% of the vote here (+3.9%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 29.3% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 96.0% — 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
35,327
Margin
6,617
18.73%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1LAKHANI SHASHIKANT ANANDLALIndian National Congress · INC16,96948.0%
- 2ODEDARA KARSHAN GIGAJanata Party · JNP10,35229.3%
- 3JADEJA VIKRAMSINHIndependent · IND3,4719.8%
- 4GOHEL JADAV PRADHANIndependent · IND2,7907.9%
- 5VISANA RAMBHAI LAKHANSHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9522.7%
- 6KESHVALA RUPIBEN DUDABHAIIndependent · IND3421.0%
- 7THANKI MOHANLAL VASHARAMIndependent · IND2200.6%
- 8PRABHAVATI PREMJI RAIMAGIAIndependent · IND1670.5%
- 9LAKHANI MOHANLAL LALJIIndependent · IND640.2%
Since 1975
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- −25.4%
- INC share
- 44.2% → 48.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → —