Constituency
20. Khalapur
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-KHALAPUR
INC 59.0%won by 28.6%PWP 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: PWP (PWP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 28.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.1% to 59.0% of the vote here (+23.9%).
- 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
48,136
Margin
13,745
28.55%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BALKRISHNA LIMBAJI PATILIndian National Congress · INC28,38159.0%
- 2VISHNU NARAYAN THANAGEPWP · PWP14,63630.4%
- 3MADHUSUDAN R. MAHENDALEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,1688.7%
- 4DATTATRAYA D. PHANASENCO · NCO9512.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PWP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PWP swing
- +44.0%
- INC share
- 35.1% → 59.0%
- PWP share
- 50.6% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- — → —