Constituency
55. Palghar
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-PALGHAR
INC 63.7%won by 29.8%SOP 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 29.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.7% to 63.7% of the vote here (+23.0%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 33.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
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
50,918
Margin
15,156
29.77%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1VINAYAK SITARAM PATILIndian National Congress · INC32,44163.7%
- 2MORESHWAR BHIMAJI MESTRISOP · SOP17,28533.9%
- 3DHAN KUSHANLAL N. SHRUFFNCO · NCO1,1922.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −11.0%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 63.7%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —