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249. Ratnagiri

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Maharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-RATNAGIRI

JNP 51.8%won by 12.1%INCI 39.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 12.1%.

  • JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 51.8% of the vote here (+51.8%).
  • New challengerINCI (INCI) finished second with 39.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.4% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 2.5% to 61.0%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
5,96,427
Turnout
61.0%
Valid votes
3,63,653
Margin
44,161
12.14%

Candidates

6 contested · winner JNP
  1. 1BAPUSAHEB PARULEKARJanata Party · JNP1,88,25351.8%
  2. 2KAZI UMARINCI · INCI1,44,09239.6%
  3. 3POWAR BHIKAJI VISHRAMRPI · RPI15,0254.1%
  4. 4PRAKASH VITHAL KADAMIndependent · IND9,9612.7%
  5. 5BHUVAD KRISHNA DHONDIBAIndependent · IND4,2161.2%
  6. 6SHAH EX-POLADPUR MAMLATDARIndependent · IND2,1060.6%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
JNPflipped
JNP–INCI swing
+12.1%
JNP share
0.0% → 51.8%
INCI share
0.0% → 39.6%
Turnout
58.5% → 61.0%
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