Constituency
54. Gurh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-GURH
INC 46.8%won by 20.9%SOP 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.1% to 20.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.8% between them, down from 79.3% — 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
40,217
Margin
8,396
20.88%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAMPAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,84146.8%
- 2SHYAM SUNDER PATELSOP · SOP10,44526.0%
- 3GIRIJA PRASAD MISHRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,53413.8%
- 4LAXPATI PRASADPANDEYIndependent · IND1,6164.0%
- 5SHIVA SARANIndependent · IND1,5513.9%
- 6BABULAL GOTIAIndependent · IND1,3643.4%
- 7RAJENDRA PRASADIndependent · IND8662.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −33.3%
- INC share
- 54.2% → 46.8%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —