Constituency
132. Bhandara
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-BHANDARA
IND 59.3%won by 24.7%INC 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.5% to 24.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 82.4% — 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
69,985
Margin
17,287
24.70%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1GOVIND RAMJI SHENDEIndependent · IND41,51159.3%
- 2TIRPUDE N. KHANTADUIndian National Congress · INC24,22434.6%
- 3BANSON BHANUDASJI SEGORPK · RPK3,5855.1%
- 4SHRIRAM SURYABHAN JKEYRPI · RPI6651.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- +14.2%
- IND share
- 46.4% → 59.3%
- INC share
- 36.0% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —