Constituency
100. Palanpur
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-PALANPUR
INC 47.4%won by 31.1%BJP 16.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 28.8% to 31.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.8% between them, down from 90.9% — 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
53,930
Margin
16,748
31.06%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1MEHTA SURESHBHAI SARABHAIIndian National Congress · INC25,56647.4%
- 2PATEL PARSOTAMBHAI VELCHANDBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,81816.4%
- 3NAGORI HAMIDKHAN MISRIKHANIndependent · IND7,56514.0%
- 4PATEL NARSINHBHAI DOLJIBHAIJanata Party · JNP7,36113.6%
- 5JOSHI MOHANIndependent · IND1,8753.5%
- 6MERUJI DOHJIJI THAKORIndependent · IND1,6323.0%
- 7PATEL PARSOTAMBHAI NARSINBHAIIndependent · IND7951.5%
- 8PREMUBHAI N. TRIVEDIIndependent · IND2180.4%
- 9KELA DILIPKUMAR HARICHANDRADDP · DDP1000.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +2.2%
- INC share
- 59.8% → 47.4%
- BJP share
- 31.0% → 16.4%
- Turnout
- — → —