Constituency
138. Kalmeshwar
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1978
MH-KALMESHWAR
FBL 71.0%won by 55.7%JNP 15.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 55.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 44.1% to 71.0% of the vote here (+26.9%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 15.3% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.3% between them, down from 96.2% — 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
77,753
Margin
43,323
55.72%
Candidates
8 contested · winner FBL- 1GAIKWAD BHAGVANTRAO MANIKRAOFBL · FBL55,20271.0%
- 2WANKHEDE CHANDRASHEKHAR SANTOSHRAOJanata Party · JNP11,87915.3%
- 3WANKHEDE SHESHRAO KRISHNARAOIndian National Congress · INC8,21810.6%
- 4MARKAM SHITAL KAODUJIIndependent · IND1,0101.3%
- 5NIKOSE SHANKAR NATHUJIIndependent · IND5990.8%
- 6MASRAM VINODINI INDRARAJSINGHIndependent · IND4500.6%
- 7CHANDEL RAJENDRASINGH KHUSHALSINGHIndependent · IND2000.3%
- 8SUBHASH MULECHANDJI LADHADIndependent · IND1950.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–JNP swing
- +11.7%
- FBL share
- 44.1% → 71.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 15.3%
- Turnout
- — → —