Constituency
42. Junagadh
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-JUNAGADH
INC 64.6%won by 31.6%BJP 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.8% to 31.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 81.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
45,132
Margin
14,280
31.64%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL GODHANBHAI GOKAL BHAIIndian National Congress · INC29,16364.6%
- 2PADHIYAR NARSINHBHAI DHANJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP14,88333.0%
- 3RANA VINOO BHAI MAHENDRALALIndependent · IND4040.9%
- 4DANGAR RAMBHAI BHOJABHIIndependent · IND2960.7%
- 5PITHIYA CHHAGAN JETHADDP · DDP1590.4%
- 6MAHIDA ARVIND SHAMJIBHAIIndependent · IND1390.3%
- 7SOLANKI MULJI DAYABHAIIndependent · IND880.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +12.9%
- INC share
- 50.0% → 64.6%
- BJP share
- 31.2% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- — → —