Constituency
144. Chanda
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-CHANDA
INC 64.3%won by 39.9%IND 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.6% to 39.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.7% of the vote between them, up from 74.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
64,559
Margin
25,735
39.86%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1EKNATH SALWEIndian National Congress · INC41,51464.3%
- 2M KRUSHNAJI KOTPALLIWARIndependent · IND15,77924.4%
- 3RAM DASS DINURPI · RPI3,2865.1%
- 4MADHAO BALAJI THAKAREIndependent · IND2,9504.6%
- 5BELEKAR DAS JASHWANTRAOIndependent · IND6050.9%
- 6BALKRI SHNA POTDUKHEIndependent · IND4250.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +15.3%
- INC share
- 49.6% → 64.3%
- IND share
- 25.0% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —