Constituency
144. Sankheda
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-SANKHEDA
INC 62.0%won by 26.4%JNP 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: KLP (KLP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.6% to 62.0% of the vote here (+33.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 35.6% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.5% of the vote between them, up from 72.1% — 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
37,925
Margin
10,019
26.42%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INCSince 1975
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- KLP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- −2.2%
- INC share
- 28.6% → 62.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —