Constituency
55. Palghar
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1967
MH-PALGHAR
PSP 54.4%won by 13.6%INC 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 13.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 34.9% to 54.4% of the vote here (+19.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.1% of the vote between them, up from 78.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
46,762
Margin
6,365
13.61%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1N. B. SHAHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP25,41754.4%
- 2C. B. VARTAKIndian National Congress · INC19,05240.7%
- 3S. H. WADHANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,2342.6%
- 4M. S. MOREIndependent · IND1,0592.3%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +22.3%
- PSP share
- 34.9% → 54.4%
- INC share
- 43.6% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —