Constituency
38. Somnath
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-SOMNATH
INC 50.5%won by 5.1%BJP 45.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.1% to 50.5% of the vote here (+19.4%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 45.5% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.8% — 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
54,122
Margin
2,739
5.06%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1BALOCH M. F.Indian National Congress · INC27,35850.5%
- 2CHUDASAMA HIRABHAI RAMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,61945.5%
- 3KOTIYA HARSHAD NARANDASIndependent · IND6931.3%
- 4JETHVA JIVA VASADDP · DDP5771.1%
- 5ACHARYA RASIKCHANDRA DEVSHANKERIndependent · IND2770.5%
- 6RELWANI CHIJANDAS KANVARMALIndependent · IND2000.4%
- 7GOHEL NARANDAS KARSHANDASIndependent · IND1770.3%
- 8KAJI FARUK ABDUL KARIMIndependent · IND1310.2%
- 9VADHER RUDABHAI DEVSHIBHAIIndependent · IND900.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −26.0%
- INC share
- 31.1% → 50.5%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 45.5%
- Turnout
- — → —