Constituency
55. Talaja
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-TALAJA
INC 48.2%won by 8.0%IND 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.1% to 8.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.3% of the vote between them, up from 75.7% — 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
46,614
Margin
3,739
8.02%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1VAJA BHADRASINH JAMSINHIndian National Congress · INC22,45448.2%
- 2DABHI NATUBHAI BHIKHABHAIIndependent · IND18,71540.1%
- 3BHATT BHIKHABHAI HARRGOVINDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,6117.7%
- 4NAGARDAS VALLABHDAS MAHTAIndependent · IND5411.2%
- 5NAKUM PANCHA JINADDP · DDP5131.1%
- 6BALAR MANJIBHAI PARSHOTAMDASIndependent · IND3310.7%
- 7GOHIL RAMESH VELJIBHAIIndependent · IND2400.5%
- 8DOKADIA TARMAHAMAD HASAMBHAIIndependent · IND2090.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −26.8%
- INC share
- 54.9% → 48.2%
- IND share
- 20.1% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —