Constituency
235. Poona Cantonment
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-POONA-CANTONMENT
INC 59.0%won by 32.5%SOP 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.8% to 32.5%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 26.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.5% of the vote between them, up from 68.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
51,953
Margin
16,888
32.51%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHIVAJIRAO DHEREIndian National Congress · INC30,66159.0%
- 2RAM TUPESOP · SOP13,77326.5%
- 3YADAV SHANKAR MALANNABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,2418.2%
- 4SALAVE RAJMURTIRPK · RPK3,2786.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −3.9%
- INC share
- 36.4% → 59.0%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- — → —