Constituency
172. Chorasi
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-CHORASI
INC 71.8%won by 56.0%BJP 15.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 44.7% to 56.0%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 15.8% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- 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
59,299
Margin
33,224
56.03%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1KANTIBHAI KESHAVBHAI PATELIndian National Congress · INC42,59571.8%
- 2RAMANBHAI NATHUBHAI PATELBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,37115.8%
- 3DESAI NAISHADBHAI BHUPATBHAIJanata Party · JNP3,0545.2%
- 4SURESH SONVANEIndependent · IND1,7903.0%
- 5JAGDISHCHANDRA NANDLAL MEHTAIndependent · IND8371.4%
- 6SHUKLA KASHYAPBHAI NARSHANDRAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6931.2%
- 7A. I. SIDDHIQUIIndependent · IND3590.6%
- 8CHAUDHARY BHIKHABHAI SHRIDHARDDP · DDP2710.5%
- 9CHAUHAN KARAMSIBHAI DAHYABHAIIndependent · IND2130.4%
- 10R. N. SRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND1160.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −12.3%
- INC share
- 68.3% → 71.8%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 15.8%
- Turnout
- — → —