Constituency
66. Dehgam
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-DEHGAM
BJP 53.5%won by 19.1%INC 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 19.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 28.2% to 53.5% of the vote here (+25.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.9% of the vote between them, up from 68.5% — 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
69,630
Margin
13,279
19.07%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1GABHAJI MANGAJI THAKORBharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,25553.5%
- 2AJITSINH MOTISINH THAKORIndian National Congress · INC23,97634.4%
- 3PATEL MANGABHAI BECHARBHAIJanata Party · JNP4,8186.9%
- 4THAKOR TAKHAJI BHAVANJIIndependent · IND1,6912.4%
- 5PREMSHANKAR D. RAVALDDP · DDP6360.9%
- 6PARMAR LAXMANBHAI BIJALBHAIIndependent · IND5430.8%
- 7PATEL DAHYABHAI KHODIDASIndependent · IND4260.6%
- 8PATEL NATVARBHAI PASHABHAIIndependent · IND2140.3%
- 9NATVARLAL GANDABHAI PATELIndependent · IND710.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +29.2%
- BJP share
- 28.2% → 53.5%
- INC share
- 38.3% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- — → —