Constituency
126. Banaskantha
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BANASKANTHA
INCI 60.6%won by 29.5%JNP 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 29.5%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 60.6% of the vote here (+60.6%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 31.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.2% to 50.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,98,878
Turnout
50.7%
Valid votes
3,03,816
Margin
89,487
29.45%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCI- 1BHERAVDAN KHETDANJI GADHAVIINCI · INCI1,84,05760.6%
- 2ACHHVA KASAMBHAI MAHMADBHAIJanata Party · JNP94,57031.1%
- 3SHAH SUKETU JAYANTILALJNPS · JNPS15,6255.1%
- 4PREMUBHAI NARAYANLAL TRIVEDIIndependent · IND9,5643.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +29.5%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 60.6%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- 53.9% → 50.7%