Constituency
69. Jaitpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-JAITPUR
INC 53.7%won by 34.4%SOP 19.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 69.2% to 34.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 19.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.1% between them, down from 84.3% — 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
18,643
Margin
6,409
34.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BHAGWANDINIndian National Congress · INC10,01553.7%
- 2BABULAL SINGHSOP · SOP3,60619.3%
- 3AMER SINGHIndependent · IND3,08216.5%
- 4DADULLE SINGHIndependent · IND1,0065.4%
- 5RAMMANOHAR SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9345.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −42.4%
- INC share
- 76.8% → 53.7%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 19.3%
- Turnout
- — → —