Constituency
180. Aurangabad West
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-AURANGABAD-WEST
INC 55.8%won by 34.3%RPI 21.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.4% to 34.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
58,723
Margin
20,120
34.26%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1ZAKARIA RAFIQ BALIMYIndian National Congress · INC32,76155.8%
- 2PRADHAN S TRPI · RPI12,64121.5%
- 3DNYANENDRA SHARMABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS10,79018.4%
- 4A RAZNI S UMRA HUSSAINIndependent · IND1,5312.6%
- 5Q Y DESHMUKHIndependent · IND4060.7%
- 6RAMCHANDRARAO MORERPK · RPK3260.6%
- 7KASIM KISMATWALAIndependent · IND2680.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RPI swing
- −4.1%
- INC share
- 59.6% → 55.8%
- RPI share
- 21.2% → 21.5%
- Turnout
- — → —