Constituency
168. Olpad
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-OLPAD
INC 73.2%won by 54.8%JNP 18.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 41.8% to 54.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.6% of the vote between them, up from 84.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
54,006
Margin
29,569
54.75%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL MAHENDRABHAI RATANJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC39,52073.2%
- 2PATEL HARILAL LALLUBHAIJanata Party · JNP9,95118.4%
- 3BHAJIWALA THAKORBHAI CHHAGANBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,5076.5%
- 4GAJGHAT NAMDEV TUKARAMIndependent · IND5981.1%
- 5SONI RAMSING RAMLALIndependent · IND2650.5%
- 6PATEL CHHOTUBHAI NAROTAMBHAIDDP · DDP1650.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- +12.9%
- INC share
- 63.1% → 73.2%
- JNP share
- 21.3% → 18.4%
- Turnout
- — → —