Constituency
168. Olpad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-OLPAD
INC 63.1%won by 41.8%JNP 21.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 41.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 30.5% to 63.1% of the vote here (+32.5%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 21.3% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
54,337
Margin
22,720
41.81%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL BALUBHAI DEVABHAIIndian National Congress · INC34,27363.1%
- 2PATEL PARBHUBHAI DAHYABHAIJanata Party · JNP11,55321.3%
- 3AJITBBHAI NARSINBHAI PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,32413.5%
- 4PATEL CHANDRAKANT MAGANLALIndependent · IND6861.3%
- 5HAJIRAWALA BABUBHAI MANCHHARAMIndependent · IND2530.5%
- 6RATHOD DHANJIBHAI CHHANABHAIIndependent · IND2480.5%
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
- +11.3%
- INC share
- 30.5% → 63.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 21.3%
- Turnout
- — → —