Constituency
18. Gondal
Community mirrorGujarat Assembly Election, 1972
GJ-GONDAL
INC 60.4%won by 41.7%NCO 18.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 41.7%.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 18.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.2% between them, down from 95.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
35,748
Margin
14,908
41.70%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SORATHIA P LAKUABHAIIndian National Congress · INC21,60660.4%
- 2BALLLUBHAI HARJIBHAI PATELNCO · NCO6,69818.7%
- 3GOVINDLAL SHIVLAL DESAIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,34414.9%
- 4VIJAYSINGH P VAGHELAIndependent · IND8102.3%
- 5TABANI SIDIK SATTARIndependent · IND4351.2%
- 6KUSUMKUMARI C JOSHISwatantra Party · SWA3350.9%
- 7PARODIA MODHA GOPAIndependent · IND3320.9%
- 8DUDALAL KUIMJI LIMBANIIndependent · IND1880.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −8.2%
- INC share
- 49.9% → 60.4%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 18.7%
- Turnout
- — → —