Constituency
49. Botad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-BOTAD
INC 53.1%won by 21.8%JNP 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.2% to 21.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.4% of the vote between them, up from 76.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
53,430
Margin
11,655
21.81%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1KHACHAR HATHIBHAI CHHELBHAIIndian National Congress · INC28,38653.1%
- 2PATEL VALLABHBHAI JIVABHAIJanata Party · JNP16,73131.3%
- 3YADAV RAMJIBHAI NAGJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,52112.2%
- 4MAKAWANA NANUBHAI CHHAGANBHAIIndependent · IND8211.5%
- 5MANKAD RAHIM KASAMBHAIIndependent · IND7341.4%
- 6SHAH DILIPKUMAR KHANTILALDDP · DDP2370.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −8.4%
- INC share
- 53.3% → 53.1%
- JNP share
- 23.2% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —