Constituency
70. Dindori
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-DINDORI
INC 60.2%won by 39.7%IND 20.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: PWP (PWP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 39.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 45.3% to 60.2% of the vote here (+14.9%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 20.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
40,432
Margin
16,068
39.74%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BHAU RAUT KACHRUIndian National Congress · INC24,34060.2%
- 2RAMCHANDRA MAKUNDA BHOYEIndependent · IND8,27220.5%
- 3SHANKAR BHIKAJI POTINDEPWP · PWP4,40110.9%
- 4SAWLERAM BHIKAJI DHULEIndependent · IND1,7654.4%
- 5TRYMBAK HARI BOMBALEIndependent · IND1,0222.5%
- 6NARAYAN DHONDI MORECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6321.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PWP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −5.5%
- INC share
- 45.3% → 60.2%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 20.5%
- Turnout
- — → —