Constituency
23. Pohri
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-POHRI
BJS 61.1%won by 26.1%INC 35.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 45.7% to 26.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.0% of the vote between them, up from 82.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
31,551
Margin
8,225
26.07%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJS- 1BABU LALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS19,26361.1%
- 2MISHREEIndian National Congress · INC11,03835.0%
- 3CHARNOOIndependent · IND7722.4%
- 4RAMJEELALIndependent · IND4781.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- −19.7%
- BJS share
- 64.3% → 61.1%
- INC share
- 18.6% → 35.0%
- Turnout
- — → —