Constituency
298. Ahmednagar
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-AHMEDNAGAR
INC 55.4%won by 20.0%BLD 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.2% to 20.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerBLD (BLD) finished second with 35.4% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- 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
5,75,389
Turnout
56.4%
Valid votes
3,24,234
Margin
64,813
19.99%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SHINDE ANNASAHEB PANDURANGIndian National Congress · INC1,79,55055.4%
- 2GADE MOHANRAO ABASAHEBBLD · BLD1,14,73735.4%
- 3NAGAWADE BALASAHEB NABAJICommunist Party of India · CPI29,9479.2%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BLD swing
- −34.8%
- INC share
- 54.8% → 55.4%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- 55.5% → 56.4%