Constituency
120. Bhavnagar
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BHAVNAGAR
INCI 51.7%won by 21.3%JNP 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 21.3%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 51.7% of the vote here (+51.7%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 30.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.1% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.9% to 41.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,05,711
Turnout
41.9%
Valid votes
2,53,727
Margin
53,929
21.25%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INCI- 1GOHIL GIGABHAI BHAVUBHAIINCI · INCI1,31,08251.7%
- 2SHAH JAYABEN VAJUBHAIJanata Party · JNP77,15330.4%
- 3SHAH PRATAPBHAI TARACHANDIndependent · IND18,2697.2%
- 4VAGADA CHAMPAKLAL BALCHANDINCU · INCU12,7545.0%
- 5GHOGHARI RANCHHOD CHHAGANIndependent · IND3,3301.3%
- 6HUSEN HAMDARDIndependent · IND3,1201.2%
- 7JAYANTKUMAR HARISHANKER TRIVEDIIndependent · IND2,8751.1%
- 8NAGARDAS VALLABHDAS MEHTAIndependent · IND2,5891.0%
- 9GOHIL TAKHTASIHJI RAMSIHJIIndependent · IND2,5551.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +21.3%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 51.7%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- 49.8% → 41.9%