Constituency
147. Baroda City
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-BARODA-CITY
INC 50.3%won by 35.3%BJP 15.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.7% to 35.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.4% between them, down from 94.4% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
62,567
Margin
22,075
35.28%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1BHIKHABHAI MULJIBHAI PABARIIndian National Congress · INC31,49650.3%
- 2SUKHADIA JITENDRA RATILALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,42115.1%
- 3INDRAVADAN OCHEHHAVLAL MODIJanata Party · JNP9,19814.7%
- 4MADHU SHRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND6,78510.8%
- 5SURVE KESHAVRAV MAHADEVRAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,0043.2%
- 6CHAUHAN VIJAYSINH (BHOMNATH)Independent · IND1,7252.8%
- 7SHAN KARBHAI PATELIndependent · IND9551.5%
- 8RAJGURU PRAVINBHAI RAVJIBHAIIndependent · IND3420.5%
- 9PATEL HARISHKUMAR KESHAVBHAIIndependent · IND3120.5%
- 10JAYESHBHAI BABUBHAI DADAWALAIndependent · IND1330.2%
- 11GANDOTRA S.M.Independent · IND1180.2%
- 12PATEL RAMESHBHAI MANGALBHAIDDP · DDP780.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +28.5%
- INC share
- 50.5% → 50.3%
- BJP share
- 43.8% → 15.1%
- Turnout
- — → —