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179. Dharampur

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Gujarat Assembly Election, 1985

GJ-DHARAMPUR

INC 62.0%won by 39.0%BJP 23.0%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.4% to 39.0%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Party (JNP) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.0% of the vote between them, up from 79.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
36,969
Margin
14,435
39.05%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1PATEL SHANKARBHAI RAVJIBHAIIndian National Congress · INC22,92462.0%
  2. 2CHAUDHARI MANIBHAI RAMJIBHAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,48923.0%
  3. 3BHOYA ANANDBHAI BULUBHAIJanata Party · JNP3,98010.8%
  4. 4PATEL KARSANBHAI GHURIABHAIIndependent · IND8072.2%
  5. 5PATEL GULABBHAI BUCHABHAIDDP · DDP7692.1%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–BJP swing
+3.3%
INC share
49.9% → 62.0%
BJP share
14.2% → 23.0%
Turnout
— → —
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