Constituency
222. Ratnagiri
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-RATNAGIRI
INC 62.6%won by 32.9%BJS 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.7% to 32.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.3% of the vote between them, up from 67.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
4,74,731
Turnout
56.5%
Valid votes
2,67,971
Margin
88,238
32.93%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SHANTARAM LAXUMAN PEJEIndian National Congress · INC1,67,74062.6%
- 2CHANRAKANT KASHINATH PARULEKARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS79,50229.7%
- 3ANIL RAGHUNATH BIRJEShiv Sena · SHS20,7297.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +13.2%
- INC share
- 43.8% → 62.6%
- BJS share
- 24.1% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- 56.8% → 56.5%