Constituency
73. Rakhial
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-RAKHIAL
INC 60.6%won by 48.1%CPI 12.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 38.3% to 48.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 12.5% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.1% between them, down from 87.5% — 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
48,845
Margin
23,471
48.05%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1PRABODH RAVALIndian National Congress · INC29,58160.6%
- 2ASHOK PUNJABICommunist Party of India · CPI6,11012.5%
- 3SHANKARBHAI PATELJanata Party · JNP5,67311.6%
- 4KASAMBHAI MAHMADBHAI ACHHWABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,2618.7%
- 5GHASWALA YUSUFBHAIIndependent · IND1,4913.1%
- 6LAHERISINGH CHAUHANJNPSC · JNPSC6341.3%
- 7PYARELAL BAGADIINCU · INCU5671.2%
- 8KARAMSHIBHAI RAGHAVBHAI PATELIndependent · IND2290.5%
- 9PATEL NATHALAL DEVRAJBHAIIndependent · IND2100.4%
- 10JIVARAMBHAI NATHUBHAI PANDYAIndependent · IND890.2%
Since 1975
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −14.9%
- INC share
- 62.9% → 60.6%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 12.5%
- Turnout
- — → —