Constituency
22. Karera
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-KARERA
BJS 51.5%won by 18.2%INC 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 73.6% to 18.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 32.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.8% between them, down from 95.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
46,858
Margin
8,545
18.24%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJS- 1HARDAS GUPTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS24,13051.5%
- 2JAINARAYANIndian National Congress · INC15,58533.3%
- 3GULAB SINGHIndependent · IND1,8794.0%
- 4SARVAJEETNCO · NCO1,7013.6%
- 5LADUIndependent · IND1,4443.1%
- 6GAJJU RAMIndependent · IND1,1952.6%
- 7VISHWANATHHMS · HMS9242.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- −55.3%
- BJS share
- 84.3% → 51.5%
- INC share
- 10.7% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —