Constituency
67. Malegaon
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-MALEGAON
INC 49.6%won by 8.2%SOP 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.6% to 49.6% of the vote here (+23.0%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
74,324
Margin
6,119
8.23%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1ASISHA CHIRAGH HAKIMIndian National Congress · INC36,84849.6%
- 2NIHAL AH MAULVI MD. USMANSOP · SOP30,72941.3%
- 3EKNATH MAHADU TISGEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,1252.9%
- 4B. A. HAROONCommunist Party of India · CPI1,9082.6%
- 5AH. VAHID MD. AMINIndependent · IND1,5202.0%
- 6S. AHMED MD. ISMAILIndependent · IND8951.2%
- 7G. M. AD. KH. MD. MARDANKHANIndependent · IND2990.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −18.3%
- INC share
- 26.6% → 49.6%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- — → —