Constituency
169. Surat City North
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-SURAT-CITY-NORTH
INC 53.5%won by 32.5%JNP 21.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.2% to 32.5%.
- 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
47,582
Margin
15,487
32.55%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1INDRA JYORAJ SOLANKIIndian National Congress · INC25,46853.5%
- 2JARIWALA JADUBHAI BALUBHAIJanata Party · JNP9,98121.0%
- 3KANUBHAI MAVANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,37417.6%
- 4LAKHPATI CHHAGANBHAI KESHAVBHAIIndependent · IND1,8583.9%
- 5GAMIT DASRATHBHAI JATARIACommunist Party of India · CPI4881.0%
- 6KANTILAL THAKORDAS JARIWALAIndependent · IND4420.9%
- 7MARATHA BABU NATHUIndependent · IND3870.8%
- 8LIMJE BABURAO PANCHAMDDP · DDP2010.4%
- 9PANCHAL ASHOKBHAI CHIMANBHAIIndependent · IND1530.3%
- 10PEJE PRERAJ GOVINDBHAIIndependent · IND1310.3%
- 11PATEL PARSHOTAMBHAI JOTIARAMIndependent · IND990.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- +5.4%
- INC share
- 51.8% → 53.5%
- JNP share
- 24.6% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- — → —