Constituency
74. Shaher Kotda
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-SHAHER-KOTDA
INC 70.0%won by 53.9%JNP 16.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.3% to 53.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 16.1% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.1% between them, down from 92.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
40,618
Margin
21,912
53.95%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1MANUBHAI PARMARIndian National Congress · INC28,44870.0%
- 2MOHANLAL MAKWANAJanata Party · JNP6,53616.1%
- 3G. K. PARMARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,3628.3%
- 4PARMAR GIRISHCHANDRA KHEMCHANDBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,7824.4%
- 5MANILAL VARUBHAI GOHILIndependent · IND2230.5%
- 6RATHOD MULJIBHAI RATNABHAIIndependent · IND1560.4%
- 7CHAVDA MOHANBHAI KAMABHAIIndependent · IND1110.3%
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–JNP swing
- −4.2%
- INC share
- 58.2% → 70.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 16.1%
- Turnout
- — → —