Election
Constituency

151. Baroda Rural

Community mirror

Gujarat Assembly Election, 1985

GJ-BARODA-RURAL

INC 46.5%won by 0.6%JNP 46.0%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.8% to 0.6%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Janata Party (JNP).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 74.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
69,061
Margin
407
0.59%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCJNP swing
−31.8%
INC share
50.4% 46.5%
JNP share
18.0% 46.0%
Turnout