Constituency
38. Matunga
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-MATUNGA
INC 48.6%won by 26.5%SWA 22.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.8% to 26.5%.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
53,604
Margin
14,181
26.46%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KAMLA RAMANIndian National Congress · INC26,03748.6%
- 2NARAYAN DANDEKARSwatantra Party · SWA11,85622.1%
- 3P. K. GANATRANCO · NCO9,48517.7%
- 4MANGALDAS NATHUBAI MANEKBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,10311.4%
- 5BABUBHAI V.. MEHTAIndependent · IND1230.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- +23.6%
- INC share
- 36.5% → 48.6%
- SWA share
- 33.7% → 22.1%
- Turnout
- — → —