Constituency
6. Rajapur
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-RAJAPUR
INC 51.7%won by 5.3%SOP 46.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.0% to 51.7% of the vote here (+22.8%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 46.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 87.5% — 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
42,537
Margin
2,245
5.28%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SAHADEV MUKUND THAKREIndian National Congress · INC22,00651.7%
- 2LAXMAN RANGNATH HATANKARSOP · SOP19,76146.5%
- 3SADANAND SHIVRAM CHAWANIndependent · IND7701.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −23.7%
- INC share
- 29.0% → 51.7%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 46.5%
- Turnout
- — → —