Constituency
57. Bhavnagar North
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-BHAVNAGAR-NORTH
INC 50.9%won by 23.9%BJP 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.9% to 23.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.9% between them, down from 85.3% — the field split more ways.
- 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
41,167
Margin
9,843
23.91%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1OZA DIGANTBHAI DILIPKUMARIndian National Congress · INC20,95450.9%
- 2SHAH NAGINDAS MANILAL (NAGINBHAI SHAH)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,11127.0%
- 3ARUN SUBODH MEHTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,19717.5%
- 4VAISHNAV INDUBEN NALINBHAIIndependent · IND1,1032.7%
- 5HUSAIN HAMDARDIndependent · IND2390.6%
- 6JOSHI CHANDRAKANT DAYASHANKER (PROFESSOR C. D.DDP · DDP1700.4%
- 7NAYAK YOGESHBHAI CHANDRAKANTIndependent · IND1420.3%
- 8MEHTA DHURJATI RUSHIRAIIndependent · IND1240.3%
- 9NETARWALA ARJUN BHAI BOGHABHAIIndependent · IND560.1%
- 10PAHA MAHMADBHAI VALIBHAIIndependent · IND560.1%
- 11PARMAR TRIKAMSINH SAMATSINHIndependent · IND150.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +17.0%
- INC share
- 46.1% → 50.9%
- BJP share
- 39.2% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- — → —