Constituency
17. Panvel
Community mirrorMaharashtra Assembly Election, 1985
MH-PANVEL
PWP 55.0%won by 33.6%INC 21.4%
What changed here
DerivedPWP held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 33.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.4% between them, down from 98.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatPWP won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
68,592
Margin
23,077
33.64%
Candidates
8 contested · winner PWP- 1PATIL DATTATRAY NARAYANPWP · PWP37,74055.0%
- 2GAJANAN NARAYAN PATILIndian National Congress · INC14,66321.4%
- 3GANPAT RAGHO PATILIndependent · IND9,98214.6%
- 4SUDHAKAR NARAYAN PATILIndependent · IND3,5405.2%
- 5VAHULKAR SHRIRANG DEVRAOIndependent · IND1,1451.7%
- 6BALARAM GOMA BHOPIIndependent · IND8651.3%
- 7BHAGWAT VASANT BABURAOIndependent · IND3820.6%
- 8PANDE MADHUSOODAN RAMMOORATIndependent · IND2750.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- PWP
- Winner now
- PWP
- PWP–INC swing
- +30.2%
- PWP share
- 50.8% → 55.0%
- INC share
- 47.4% → 21.4%
- Turnout
- — → —