Constituency
120. Achalpur
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1978
MH-ACHALPUR
IND 30.1%won by 0.9%CPI 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 0.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 30.1% of the vote here (+30.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 29.2% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.3% between them, down from 95.1% — the field split more ways.
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
80,284
Margin
732
0.91%
Candidates
10 contested · winner IND- 1BHOKARE WAMAN RAJIRAOIndependent · IND24,17830.1%
- 2DESHMUKH SUDAM ALIAS WAMAN DATTATRYACommunist Party of India · CPI23,44629.2%
- 3DESHMUKH NARSINGRAO SHESHRAOIndian National Congress · INC10,56013.2%
- 4KORDE VINAYAK MAROTIIndependent · IND9,34611.6%
- 5WATANE GANGADHAR SADASHIVJanata Party · JNP8,53510.6%
- 6WANKHEDE KISAN BAJIRAOIndependent · IND1,7952.2%
- 7INGALE BHAGWANTRAO RAMRAOIndependent · IND1,6082.0%
- 8UPADHYA KAMALKISHOR KACHRULALIndependent · IND3890.5%
- 9SISAT PRABHAKAR AMRUTIndependent · IND2150.3%
- 10SHRIWAS SHAMBHUDAYAL BABULALIndependent · IND2120.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPI swing
- +0.9%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 30.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —