Constituency
177. Dangs-Bansda
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1985
GJ-DANGS-BANSDA
INC 52.5%won by 36.9%JNP 15.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.9% to 36.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.1% between them, down from 74.1% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
38,859
Margin
14,351
36.93%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1PATEL CHANDARBHAI HARIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC20,40852.5%
- 2BHOYE MADHUBHAI JELYABHAIJanata Party · JNP6,05715.6%
- 3PATEL VALLABHBHAI AMRUTBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,97515.4%
- 4CHAUDHARY NAVSUBHAI ABAJIBHAIIndependent · IND5,05113.0%
- 5GAVIT LAHANUBHAI RAMJIBHAICommunist Party of India · CPI8822.3%
- 6PAWAR AKHATBHAI PANDUBHAIDDP · DDP4861.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- +16.1%
- INC share
- 47.5% → 52.5%
- JNP share
- 26.6% → 15.6%
- Turnout
- — → —