Constituency
7. Lanja
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-LANJA
INC 60.3%won by 29.2%SOP 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 29.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 36.2% to 60.3% of the vote here (+24.2%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 31.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 84.0% — 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
36,357
Margin
10,631
29.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHIWAJIRAO SAWANTIndian National Congress · INC21,93960.3%
- 2JAGANNATHRAO JADHAOSOP · SOP11,30831.1%
- 3VANJARE NANANCO · NCO2,3766.5%
- 4GOPAL KASHINATH SURVEIndependent · IND7342.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −6.9%
- INC share
- 36.2% → 60.3%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- — → —