Constituency
152. Gadchiroli
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1980
MH-GADCHIROLI
INC 56.2%won by 29.9%INCU 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.5% to 29.9%.
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 26.4% — it did not contest here in 1978.
- 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
44,803
Margin
13,378
29.86%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KOWASE MAROTI SAINUIndian National Congress · INC25,19256.2%
- 2MESHRAM BHAGWANSHAH JIINCU · INCU11,81426.4%
- 3MADAVI LAHUJI MANGRUIndependent · IND7,79717.4%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INCU swing
- −14.5%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 56.2%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —