Constituency
9. Sangameshwar
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-SANGAMESHWAR
INC 54.5%won by 31.7%BJS 22.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.1% to 31.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.3% of the vote between them, up from 60.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
40,305
Margin
12,766
31.67%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BHUVAD LAXMIBAI BABAJIIndian National Congress · INC21,95254.5%
- 2BHIDE S. DATTATRAYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,18622.8%
- 3ANERAO MANOHAR SUBHANRAOSOP · SOP7,80319.4%
- 4SHEKASAN MAHAMAD DAUDIndependent · IND1,3643.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +15.6%
- INC share
- 38.5% → 54.5%
- BJS share
- 22.4% → 22.8%
- Turnout
- — → —