Constituency
265. Buldhana
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-BULDHANA
INCI 52.5%won by 33.8%INCU 18.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: RPK (RPK) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 33.8%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 52.5% of the vote here (+52.5%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 18.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.2% between them, down from 94.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.2% to 49.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,72,909
Turnout
49.8%
Valid votes
3,35,001
Margin
1,13,096
33.76%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INCI- 1WASNIK BALKRISHNA RAMCHANDRAINCI · INCI1,75,80052.5%
- 2DATTA GANGARAM HIWALEINCU · INCU62,70418.7%
- 3DAULAR GUNAJI GAWAIIndependent · IND61,52718.4%
- 4WAGHMARE D. K.RPI · RPI6,6292.0%
- 5MAHASKEY S. D.RPK · RPK5,4471.6%
- 6GOTARJAR VISHWANATH JAGDEWIndependent · IND4,9591.5%
- 7PRABHAKAR UMAJI AWAREIndependent · IND4,8731.5%
- 8KALE SUKDEO NANDAJNPS · JNPS4,1611.2%
- 9GOPALRAO SAKHARAM JADHAOIndependent · IND3,8021.1%
- 10VIJAYKUMAR KASTUREIndependent · IND3,4791.0%
- 11PRAHLAD ASHRU MANGIndependent · IND7490.2%
- 12KAMLE NARAYAN ZAMAJIIndependent · IND4760.1%
- 13FAKIRCHAND BHAVAJI SONAWANEIndependent · IND3950.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- RPK
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–INCU swing
- +33.8%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 52.5%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 18.7%
- Turnout
- 59.0% → 49.8%