Constituency
47. Chitra Koot
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-CHITRA-KOOT
INC 56.7%won by 33.7%SOP 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 33.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.3% to 56.7% of the vote here (+29.5%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 23.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.7% of the vote between them, up from 56.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
50,630
Margin
17,073
33.72%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RAM CHANDRA BAJPAYEEIndian National Congress · INC28,71156.7%
- 2RAM NAND SINGHSOP · SOP11,63823.0%
- 3GOPAL SHARAN SINGHNCO · NCO6,07512.0%
- 4VISHWESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND3,2756.5%
- 5PARASNATH PANDEIndependent · IND9311.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- +6.5%
- INC share
- 27.3% → 56.7%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —