Constituency
225. Bombay Central South
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BOMBAY-CENTRAL-SOUTH
INC 49.3%won by 27.0%SHS 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.6% to 49.3% of the vote here (+8.7%).
- New challengerShiv Sena (SHS) finished second with 22.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.5% between them, down from 83.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.2% to 62.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,37,390
Turnout
62.0%
Valid votes
3,33,368
Margin
89,993
27.00%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KADER ABDUL SALEDBNOYIndian National Congress · INC1,64,19949.3%
- 2SHANKAR DATTATRAY PRADHANShiv Sena · SHS74,20622.3%
- 3GULABRAO BHAURAO GANACHARYACommunist Party of India · CPI55,36816.6%
- 4VAMANRAO GANPATRAO PARABBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS33,27110.0%
- 5RAM AURANGABADKARRPK · RPK3,7891.1%
- 6BHOGILAL NAVINCHANDRA ZAVERIIndependent · IND1,6920.5%
- 7SHAMIM AHMED SHAIKHIndependent · IND8430.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SHS swing
- −13.6%
- INC share
- 40.6% → 49.3%
- SHS share
- 0.0% → 22.3%
- Turnout
- 69.2% → 62.0%