Constituency
176. Chikhli
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-CHIKHLI
INC 50.3%won by 10.4%BJP 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.2% to 50.3% of the vote here (+14.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 82.8% — 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
46,591
Margin
4,862
10.44%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL BHARTIBEN NARDEVBHAIIndian National Congress · INC23,42250.3%
- 2PATEL KANJIBHAI MAGANBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,56039.8%
- 3PATEL BACHUBHAI RANCHHODBHAIJanata Party · JNP2,4595.3%
- 4PATEL AMBUBHAI BAVABHAICommunist Party of India · CPI1,1782.5%
- 5PAVAR FULSINGBHAI JIVALYABHAIDDP · DDP5371.2%
- 6PATEL NARABHAI SUKHABHAIIndependent · IND4350.9%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +20.8%
- INC share
- 36.2% → 50.3%
- BJP share
- 46.5% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —