Constituency
151. Baroda Rural
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-BARODA-RURAL
INC 46.5%won by 0.6%JNP 46.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
69,061
Margin
407
0.59%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1CHAUHAN MAHHENDRASINH TAKHATSINHIndian National Congress · INC32,14146.5%
- 2UPENDRASINH PRATAPSINH GOHILJanata Party · JNP31,73446.0%
- 3THAKOR AJITSINH PARSOTAMBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,1886.1%
- 4PARMAR NARSINHBHAI CHHITABHAIIndependent · IND4820.7%
- 5PATEL GHANSHYAMBHAI KASHIBHAIIndependent · IND3120.5%
- 6JADAV RAJENDRASINH AMARSINHDDP · DDP2040.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −31.8%
- INC share
- 50.4% → 46.5%
- JNP share
- 18.0% → 46.0%
- Turnout
- — → —