1972 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election


Maharashtra State Assembly election, 1972 was held in Indian state of Maharashtra in 1972, to elect 270 members to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

Results

won most number of seats and a clear majority. Vasantrao Naik, the incumbent Chief Minister was reelected for the post. S. K. Wankhede became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Ramkrishna
Vyankatesh Bet became Deputy Speaker. Dinkar Balu Patil was Leader of the Opposition.

Summary of results

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List of winning candidates

The following is the list of candidates won:
Constituency NameMember of Legislative AssemblyPolitical partyVotes polled
AchalpurN S DeshmukhINC
AmgaonSwarupchand AjmeraCongress
Dhobi TalavMohanlal PopatINC
GirgaonPramod NavalkarSS, w INC support
GuhagarShridhar NatuBJS
KhetwadiAnant NamjoshiINC
MaladMrinal GoreSOP
MalkapurArjun WankhedeBJS
MavalKrishnarao BhegadeBJS
Nagpur CentralNavalchand ToksiyaINC
Nagpur WestSushila BalrajINC
PusadVasantrao NaikINC
SakoliMartand KapgateCongress
ShrivardhanA R AntulayINC
Shukrawar PethRambhau MhalgiBJS
TalodeDilwar Singh PadawiBJS
WalvaRajaram-bapu PatilINC