Constituency
140. Cambay
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-CAMBAY
INC 62.1%won by 44.1%JNP 18.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.4% to 44.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.1% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
55,117
Margin
24,318
44.12%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1CHUDASAMA VIJAYSINHJI LADHUBHAIndian National Congress · INC34,24362.1%
- 2PATEL DAHYABHAI FULABHAIJanata Party · JNP9,92518.0%
- 3KHATRI JAYENDRAKUMAR BHAGVANDASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,20316.7%
- 4SHAH HARIKRUSHNABHAI CHHOTALALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,5302.8%
- 5YADAV PRABHATILAL SOHANLALDDP · DDP2160.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- +30.7%
- INC share
- 56.7% → 62.1%
- JNP share
- 43.3% → 18.0%
- Turnout
- — → —