Constituency
83. Mehsana
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-MEHSANA
INC 62.4%won by 36.4%BJP 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.2% to 36.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.3% between them, down from 97.2% — the field split more ways.
- 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
52,155
Margin
19,004
36.44%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL MANILAL VIRCHANDDASIndian National Congress · INC32,53662.4%
- 2RAJPUT CHANDANSINH SARDARSINHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,53225.9%
- 3CHAUDHARI VIRSINHBHAI VELJIBHAIJanata Party · JNP5,33410.2%
- 4PATEL ISHWARBHAI HARGOVANBAHIDDP · DDP2230.4%
- 5PRAJAPATI DASHRATHLAL PURUSHOTTAMDASIndependent · IND1720.3%
- 6RAVAL SURESHCHANDRA BABULALIndependent · IND1530.3%
- 7THAKOR SHANKARJI SONAJIIndependent · IND1470.3%
- 8ARYABANDHU SURESHCHANDRA RAMLALIndependent · IND580.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +27.2%
- INC share
- 53.2% → 62.4%
- BJP share
- 44.0% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —