Constituency
103. Akola
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-AKOLA
INC 61.3%won by 45.0%RPI 16.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.2% to 45.0%.
- New challengerRPI (RPI) finished second with 16.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
55,486
Margin
24,993
45.04%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1JAMANLAL SHRIRAMJI GEONKAIndian National Congress · INC34,00661.3%
- 2MESHRAM TOKARAM MAROTIRPI · RPI9,01316.2%
- 3W. SHANKAR RAO DESHMUKHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,52815.4%
- 4SADASHIV MANNU PANDECommunist Party of India · CPI2,3694.3%
- 5SHRIDHAR MUKUND DEOFBL · FBL1,1622.1%
- 6BADRIPRASAD R. TIWARIIndependent · IND4080.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RPI swing
- −2.8%
- INC share
- 47.9% → 61.3%
- RPI share
- 0.0% → 16.2%
- Turnout
- — → —