Constituency
150. Vaghodia
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-VAGHODIA
INC 75.7%won by 59.6%JNP 16.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 45.8% to 59.6%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 16.1% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- 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
41,883
Margin
24,976
59.63%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL MANUBHAI LALLUBHAIIndian National Congress · INC31,72675.7%
- 2CHANDRAKANT PATELJanata Party · JNP6,75016.1%
- 3CHAUHAN MAGANSINH MOHANSINHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,4425.8%
- 4PARMAR GOVINDBHAI ISHWARBHAIIndependent · IND5411.3%
- 5MAGANBHAI L. VASAWAIndependent · IND1970.5%
- 6KADAM RAMESHCHANDRA SHANTARAMDDP · DDP1170.3%
- 7MAKWANA KANJIBHAI NARAYANBHAIIndependent · IND1100.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −10.9%
- INC share
- 70.6% → 75.7%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 16.1%
- Turnout
- — → —