Constituency
87. Jalgaon
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-JALGAON
INC 45.4%won by 6.2%CPI 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.3% to 6.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.5% of the vote between them, up from 73.3% — a tighter two-way 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
51,565
Margin
3,193
6.19%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MADHUKAR ATMARAM PATILIndian National Congress · INC23,39245.4%
- 2BHALERAO SADASHIV NARAYANCommunist Party of India · CPI20,19939.2%
- 3NIKAM RAGHUNATH JAYAWANTRAOBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,14413.9%
- 4HEMAN SHANKAR KALEIndependent · IND5271.0%
- 5GOVIND RAMCHANDRA AFALEShiv Sena · SHS1800.3%
- 6FAKIRCHAND B. SONAWANEIndependent · IND1230.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +1.9%
- INC share
- 38.8% → 45.4%
- CPI share
- 34.5% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —