Constituency
66. Sohagpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-SOHAGPUR
INC 58.0%won by 31.1%SOP 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 52.5% to 31.1%.
- 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 26.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.0% of the vote between them, up from 78.1% — 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
40,831
Margin
12,688
31.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNAPAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,69058.0%
- 2PREMJISOP · SOP11,00226.9%
- 3KASHINATH KATAREBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,6946.6%
- 4DEENDAYALIndependent · IND1,6033.9%
- 5RAMKRIPALIndependent · IND1,0112.5%
- 6BAFATIIndependent · IND8312.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −34.2%
- INC share
- 65.3% → 58.0%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → —