Constituency
169. Surat City North
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1980
GJ-SURAT-CITY-NORTH
INC 51.8%won by 27.2%JNP 24.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: NCO (NCO) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1975 and 1980 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.0% to 51.8% of the vote here (+14.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 24.6% — it did not contest here in 1975.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.4% between them, down from 94.7% — 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
50,822
Margin
13,812
27.18%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PACHCHIGAR KUSHNAVADAN DHANSUKHLALIndian National Congress · INC26,32951.8%
- 2JARIWALA JADUBHAI ALIAS JAYENDRA BABUBHAIJanata Party · JNP12,51724.6%
- 3PATEL SHANBHUBHAI VALLABHBHAIINCU · INCU8,83617.4%
- 4PATEL NANJIBHAI VAGHJIBHAIIndependent · IND1,2662.5%
- 5SHENMARE NAMDEO RAMCHANDRACommunist Party of India · CPI8491.7%
- 6CHAYAL MANSUKHLAL TRIBHOVANDASIndependent · IND7031.4%
- 7DAVA SURECHANDRA NARDHESHANKERIndependent · IND2170.4%
- 8JAINE NAMDEO JIBHABHAIIndependent · IND1050.2%
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
- −9.9%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 51.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —