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Maharashtra · Assembly Constituency 31 · 1967Reserved (SC)

Lovegrove

Winner — 1967

P. T. PATEL
INC· INC
INC 40.9%RPI 40.6%2 others 18.5%
Votes
24,532
40.9% share
Winning margin
208
0.3% of votes
Total candidates
4
Turnout
62.2%
of 96,305

Lovegrove was decided by a razor-thin margin of 0.3% — fewer than 208 votes separated winner from runner-up.

Seat history

All Candidates

4 total
#CandidatePartyVotesShare
1
P. T. PATEL
INC
24,53240.9%
2
A. R. ALEKAR
24,32440.6%
3
H. L. NAGAONKAR
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
6,10710.2%
4
R. G. PADARATH
IND
4,9738.3%

DL — deposit lost: the candidate polled under one-sixth of valid votes and forfeits their election deposit under RPA 1951 s.158.

Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.

Average turnout (198th), a comfortable margin, a two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
safe
0.3%
MORE COMPETITIVESAFER
mean 19.1% · min 0.3% · max 50.9%

How contested is turnout?

SEAT
62%
lowerhigher
198th of 288

How crowded is the field?

SEAT
2.78
fewer partiesmore parties
79th of 288

How much NOTA?

SEAT
0.7%
lowerhigher
126th of 288

Where does the house stand?

SEAT
270 seats · 136 majority

How did the vote split?

SEAT
2.78EFFECTIVE PARTIES
INC 40.9%RPI 40.6%BJS 10.2%IND 8.3%

Who ran, on record?

SEAT
NOT YET COMPUTED

A moderately populated district — more literate than the national rate.

Who lives here?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Population
18,13,906
Density
320 / km²
Sex ratio
946 ♀/1000 ♂
Area
5,676 km²
SC population20.1%
ST population5.5%

What faith is practised here?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011 C-01
61%HINDU
Hindu 61.1%Muslim 19.7%Buddhist 18.1%Other 1.1%

How developed is it?

DISTRICTCENSUS 2011
Tap water58.7%
Electricity80.4%
Sanitation46.1%

How healthy is it?

DISTRICTNFHS-5 · 2019-21
Institutional births97.7%
Children fully vaccinated69.5%
Children stunted (under 5)▼ LOWER IS BETTER31.8%
Children underweight (under 5)30.8%
Women anaemic (15-49)▼ LOWER IS BETTER52.6%
Women literate87.5%
Women married before 18▼ LOWER IS BETTER13.5%
Clean cooking fuel75.5%
Health insurance40.1%

What's nearby?

SEATWIKIDATA · ASI
Known forDISTRICT
🏺Cotton Ginning and pressing🏺Pulses (Daal)

Landmark data: Wikidata (CC0) · ASI (Government of India, official). Images: Wikimedia Commons (individual CC / public-domain licenses, see each file). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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