Constituency
128. Rajkot
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-RAJKOT
BLD 46.9%won by 5.2%INC 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 5.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BLD vote shareBLD went from 0.0% to 46.9% of the vote here (+46.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.7% between them, down from 95.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.7% to 50.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,04,102
Turnout
50.5%
Valid votes
3,04,784
Margin
15,801
5.18%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BLD- 1PATEL KESHUBHAI SAVDASBHAIBLD · BLD1,43,05146.9%
- 2ARVINDKUMAR MOHANLAL PATELIndian National Congress · INC1,27,25041.8%
- 3KANABHAI LAXMANBHAI AHIRIndependent · IND23,5777.7%
- 4N. S. CHAVDAIndependent · IND5,4111.8%
- 5SEJPAL AMRITLAL GOKALDASIndependent · IND2,1800.7%
- 6MANKAD HARILAL AMRITLALIndependent · IND2,0370.7%
- 7BHAIYA ISABHAI JUMABHAIIndependent · IND1,2780.4%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BLDflipped
- BLD–INC swing
- +67.5%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 46.9%
- INC share
- 62.3% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- 42.8% → 50.5%