Constituency
70. Shahpur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-SHAHPUR
INC 59.4%won by 33.2%JNP 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 32.8% to 33.2%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 26.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.6% of the vote between them, up from 77.3% — 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
38,765
Margin
12,870
33.20%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SHAH JITENDRAKUMAR CHINUBHAI (JITUSHAH)Indian National Congress · INC23,03459.4%
- 2MAUNBHAI PALKHIWALAJanata Party · JNP10,16426.2%
- 3JOTARAM PATEL (MUNI CORPORATOR)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,21113.4%
- 4UTASAV RANAIndependent · IND2180.6%
- 5SHAH NIRANJANBHAI JIVANLALIndependent · IND770.2%
- 6JYOTSNABEN VIPINCHANDRA VYASDDP · DDP610.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −21.8%
- INC share
- 55.0% → 59.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- — → —