Constituency
135. Petlad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-PETLAD
INC 50.2%won by 3.1%JNP 47.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.0% to 50.2% of the vote here (+9.2%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 47.1% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.3% of the vote between them, up from 89.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
54,920
Margin
1,708
3.11%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1CHAUHAN GOVINDBHAI SHANKARBHAIIndian National Congress · INC27,57250.2%
- 2PATEL FULABHAI VARDHABHAIJanata Party · JNP25,86447.1%
- 3JOSHI NARENDRAKUMAR KALIDASIndependent · IND7291.3%
- 4KHRISTI VILLIAMBHAI ALOISHBHAIIndependent · IND4330.8%
- 5PATEL RAJNIKANT MAHIJIBHAIIndependent · IND1690.3%
- 6BHATABHAI SHIVABHAI THAKORIndependent · IND1530.3%
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–JNP swing
- −37.9%
- INC share
- 41.0% → 50.2%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 47.1%
- Turnout
- — → —