Constituency
240. Ramtek
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-RAMTEK
INC 83.0%won by 68.7%FBL 14.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 31.4% to 68.7%.
- New challengerFBL (FBL) finished second with 14.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.3% of the vote between them, up from 77.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.0% to 64.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,27,016
Turnout
64.0%
Valid votes
3,37,351
Margin
2,31,742
68.69%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1AMRUT GANPAT SONARIndian National Congress · INC2,80,05483.0%
- 2ANANDRAO JAIRAM KALAMKARFBL · FBL48,31214.3%
- 3HASRAM INDRARAJ CHANDANSINGIndependent · IND4,1741.2%
- 4SHAMRAO PAMAJI WANJARKARIndependent · IND3,7821.1%
- 5KAWDU VITHALRAO UMREIndependent · IND1,0290.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–FBL swing
- +14.2%
- INC share
- 54.5% → 83.0%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 14.3%
- Turnout
- 66.0% → 64.0%