Constituency
79. Gandhi Nagar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-GANDHI-NAGAR
INC 53.6%won by 30.9%BJP 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 30.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.4% to 53.6% of the vote here (+23.2%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 22.7% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.3% between them, down from 90.5% — 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
55,656
Margin
17,205
30.91%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1KASAMBHAI BAPU LIMBADIAIndian National Congress · INC29,82553.6%
- 2PATEL NAVICHANDRA PUNJALALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,62022.7%
- 3JETHALAL FULCHAND PATELJanata Party · JNP10,59619.0%
- 4THAKOR FULSINH JUGAJIJNPSR · JNPSR1,2302.2%
- 5DOCTOR MANILAL VARUBHAI GOHILIndependent · IND4770.9%
- 6RAVIAL JAYANTILAL BALDEVPRASADIndependent · IND2560.5%
- 7SWAMIJI MAHARAJESH MADHUSUDANJI MAGANLALJIIndependent · IND2420.4%
- 8PATEL TRIKAMLAL PRAHLADJIIndependent · IND2210.4%
- 9PATEL MAGANLAL ISHVARDASIndependent · IND1890.3%
Since 1975
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- NCO
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +0.5%
- INC share
- 30.4% → 53.6%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —