Constituency
242. Phaltan
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1972
MH-PHALTAN
INC 72.9%won by 58.8%CPI 14.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 58.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- 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
50,517
Margin
29,683
58.76%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +15.1%
- INC share
- 47.2% → 72.9%
- CPI share
- 3.5% → 14.1%
- Turnout
- — → —