Constituency
165. Mahuva
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-MAHUVA
INC 63.9%won by 36.8%JNP 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 47.2% to 36.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 27.1% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 84.3% — 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
40,083
Margin
14,732
36.75%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DHODIA DHANJIBHAI KARSANBHAIIndian National Congress · INC25,59963.9%
- 2PATEL BABUBHAI MAKANBHAIJanata Party · JNP10,86727.1%
- 3DHODIA DHIRUBHAI BHENKALABHAICommunist Party of India · CPI1,7884.5%
- 4CHAUDHARI MANILAL CHONGABHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0012.5%
- 5DHODIA CHHOTUBHAI PRABHUBHAIIndependent · IND8282.1%
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
- −29.0%
- INC share
- 65.7% → 63.9%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —