Constituency
79. Gandhi Nagar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-GANDHI-NAGAR
INC 44.2%won by 15.0%JNP 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.9% to 15.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Janata Party (JNP).
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
80,716
Margin
12,105
15.00%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KASAM BAPUIndian National Congress · INC35,64244.2%
- 2POPATLAL VITHALBHAI PATELJanata Party · JNP23,53729.2%
- 3SENDHAJI SHANKARJI THAKORBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,63223.1%
- 4THAKOR FULSINH JUGATSINHIndependent · IND1,6832.1%
- 5GAIKWAD NARENDRASINGH VITTHALRAODDP · DDP5620.7%
- 6PATEL CHANDULAL KHODIDASIndependent · IND4600.6%
- 7NAYAK RATILAL MANILALIndependent · IND2000.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −19.6%
- INC share
- 53.6% → 44.2%
- JNP share
- 19.0% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —