Constituency
99. Dhanera
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-DHANERA
INC 55.2%won by 25.1%BJP 30.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.3% to 55.2% of the vote here (+13.9%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 30.1% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.2% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
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
56,481
Margin
14,191
25.13%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL JOITABHAI KASHNABHAIIndian National Congress · INC31,16655.2%
- 2SHAH RAMESHCHANDRA VALCHANDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,97530.1%
- 3AAL DAHYABHAI MODHABHAIIndependent · IND4,6338.2%
- 4POSAL KALABHAI PUMMABHAIIndependent · IND9761.7%
- 5PATEL NANJIBHAI SATABHAIIndependent · IND9741.7%
- 6JAYANTIBHAI PATELDDP · DDP9691.7%
- 7JOSHI GANPATBHAI NARBHAJIIndependent · IND7881.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −16.1%
- INC share
- 41.3% → 55.2%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 30.1%
- Turnout
- — → —