Constituency
8. Ratnagiri
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-RATNAGIRI
INC 52.3%won by 20.9%BJS 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 21.1% to 20.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.7% between them, down from 89.2% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
42,656
Margin
8,930
20.93%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1S. E> HASSNAINIndian National Congress · INC22,32552.3%
- 2NIWENDKAR V. KRISHNAJIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,39531.4%
- 3BHATKAR NURUDDIN DAOODIndependent · IND4,95311.6%
- 4GANGARAM BHIKAJI KAMBALERPK · RPK1,9834.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −0.2%
- INC share
- 55.1% → 52.3%
- BJS share
- 34.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —