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Constituency

74. Shaher Kotda

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 1985

GJ-SHAHER-KOTDA

INC 69.6%won by 46.6%JNP 23.0%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 53.9% to 46.6%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 86.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
39,360
Margin
18,326
46.56%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCJNP swing
−7.4%
INC share
70.0% 69.6%
JNP share
16.1% 23.0%
Turnout