Constituency
78. Naroda
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-NARODA
INC 62.6%won by 30.2%BJP 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.6% to 30.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 78.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
59,306
Margin
17,923
30.22%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1GEETABEN DAXINIIndian National Congress · INC37,15062.6%
- 2VADHVA NANDLAL MOHRIRAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,22732.4%
- 3GIRISH THAKKARJanata Party · JNP1,3092.2%
- 4SHAH RAMANLAL SANKALCHANDIndependent · IND1,1011.9%
- 5MAHANT RAMNARAYAN HANS GOSWAMIIndependent · IND2970.5%
- 6SUTHAR BHARATKUMAR TRIKAMLALDDP · DDP820.1%
- 7ABHICHANDANI BHAGWAN TOPANDASIndependent · IND780.1%
- 8HANSRAJANI PARASHRAM GURNOMALIndependent · IND620.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +3.7%
- INC share
- 52.5% → 62.6%
- BJP share
- 26.0% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —