Constituency
16. Ponda
Community mirrorGoa Assembly Election, 1972
GA-PONDA
MAG 58.3%won by 36.5%NMG 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedMAG held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 59.8% to 36.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNMG (NMG) finished second with 21.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.1% between them, down from 93.5% — 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
10,380
Margin
3,793
36.54%
Candidates
6 contested · winner MAG- 1R. DASS H NAIKMAG · MAG6,05258.3%
- 2VISHWANATH YESHWANT NAIKNMG · NMG2,25921.8%
- 3R YESHVANTA LAXIMAN PAIUGS · UGS1,15211.1%
- 4GHANEKAR J HIRA NATHIndian National Congress · INC7847.6%
- 5SAVANT GUIRI VENCTESHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1071.0%
- 6SINCRE JAGANATHIndependent · IND260.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- MAG
- Winner now
- MAG
- MAG–NMG swing
- −40.1%
- MAG share
- 76.7% → 58.3%
- NMG share
- 0.0% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- — → —