Constituency
136. Surat
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-SURAT
INCI 50.5%won by 5.8%JNP 44.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 5.8%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 50.5% of the vote here (+50.5%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 44.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.5% to 60.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,60,862
Turnout
60.9%
Valid votes
4,63,522
Margin
26,661
5.75%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INCI- 1PATEL CHHAGANBHAI DEVABHAIINCI · INCI2,34,26350.5%
- 2ASHOK RANJITRAM MEHTAJanata Party · JNP2,07,60244.8%
- 3DESAI HITENDRABHAI KANAIYALALINCU · INCU10,7272.3%
- 4GADHE RAJARAM ASHARAMIndependent · IND3,2670.7%
- 5SAIYAD SHAHABUDDIN SAIYADALIIndependent · IND2,1750.5%
- 6SHAH CHANDRAKANT BABULALIndependent · IND1,6600.4%
- 7PATEL CHHIBEBHAI BHAGVANJIIndependent · IND1,5800.3%
- 8DESAI MUKUNDRAI BHIKHUBHAIIndependent · IND1,1990.3%
- 9BARAD MOHANSINH ANUPSINHIndependent · IND1,0490.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- BLD
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +5.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 50.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 44.8%
- Turnout
- 67.4% → 60.9%