Constituency
73. Surajpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-SURAJPUR
INC 42.6%won by 17.6%BJS 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.4% to 17.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.7% between them, down from 87.8% — 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
32,049
Margin
5,634
17.58%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1DHIRENDRANATHIndian National Congress · INC13,65842.6%
- 2SHEO PRATAPBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,02425.0%
- 3NARENDRA PRASADIndependent · IND6,88621.5%
- 4DHARAM PALIndependent · IND1,8225.7%
- 5VISHWANATHIndependent · IND5861.8%
- 6PHEKU PRASADIndependent · IND5711.8%
- 7DAKHALSOP · SOP5021.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −13.8%
- INC share
- 59.6% → 42.6%
- BJS share
- 28.2% → 25.0%
- Turnout
- — → —