Constituency
125. Junagadh
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-JUNAGADH
INC 54.0%won by 27.4%NCO 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.2% to 54.0% of the vote here (+9.8%).
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 26.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.7% between them, down from 93.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.8% to 44.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,44,069
Turnout
44.8%
Valid votes
1,98,856
Margin
54,530
27.42%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1NANJIBHAI RAVJIBHAI VEKARIAIndian National Congress · INC1,07,47154.0%
- 2VIRENDRAKUMAR SHAHNCO · NCO52,94126.6%
- 3HEMENDRA KUMAR BHAGVANJI RADIABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS31,10515.6%
- 4UGA RUPA MAHIDARPK · RPK2,9311.5%
- 5MAHENDRALAL MADHAVLAL PAREKHIndependent · IND1,6650.8%
- 6GOKALDAS MADHAVJI GANDHIHMS · HMS1,4510.7%
- 7DURLABHJI KALYANJI NAGRECHAIndependent · IND1,2920.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NCO swing
- −16.8%
- INC share
- 44.2% → 54.0%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- 54.6% → 44.8%