Constituency
160. Rajpipla
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-RAJPIPLA
INC 70.5%won by 53.8%JNP 16.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.2% to 53.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.2% between them, down from 99.0% — 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
43,388
Margin
23,322
53.75%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1VASAVA PREMSINGBHAI DEVJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC30,56870.5%
- 2VASAVA VIRSANGBHAI MADHAVSANGBHAIJanata Party · JNP7,24616.7%
- 3TADVI BHAILALBHAI DEVJIBHAIIndependent · IND3,1307.2%
- 4VASAVA MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,3873.2%
- 5TADVI RAMESHCHANDRA PADMAKANTIndependent · IND4901.1%
- 6VASAVA DADUBHAI MOTIBHAIIndependent · IND4050.9%
- 7DESHMUKH NARPATSINH PRATAPSINHDDP · DDP1620.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- +35.5%
- INC share
- 58.6% → 70.5%
- JNP share
- 40.4% → 16.7%
- Turnout
- — → —