Constituency
125. Nagpur Central
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-NAGPUR-CENTRAL
INC 46.6%won by 29.1%FBL 17.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.3% to 29.1%.
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 17.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
64,175
Margin
18,688
29.12%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1NAVALCHANDRA G. TOKSIYAIndian National Congress · INC29,92646.6%
- 2BHAGAWANTRAO GAIKAWADFBL · FBL11,23817.5%
- 3MADHAORAO LAXMAN RAJURKARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,95012.4%
- 4RATHINATH N. MISHRACommunist Party of India · CPI5,5988.7%
- 5GENDLAL SHANKARRAO KATURERPI · RPI3,7635.9%
- 6BADRUDDIN SUBHAN KAZIIndependent · IND2,7714.3%
- 7BINDAPRASAD B. KASHYAPCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,5962.5%
- 8GOPICHANDA FAKIRAIndependent · IND5070.8%
- 9MADHUKAR N. CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND2600.4%
- 10RAOJI DHOBALE HARIBHAJIndependent · IND2420.4%
- 11BABURAO HIRAJI AWARIIndependent · IND2320.4%
- 12RAMRAO K. DORLIKARIndependent · IND920.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- −10.5%
- INC share
- 39.6% → 46.6%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 17.5%
- Turnout
- — → —