Constituency
137. Matar
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-MATAR
INC 59.0%won by 20.2%JNP 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.3% to 20.2%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 38.8% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 81.0% — a tighter two-way 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
58,965
Margin
11,916
20.21%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −40.4%
- INC share
- 60.7% → 59.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- — → —