Constituency
87. Pussour
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-PUSSOUR
INC 49.7%won by 9.8%BJS 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 42.2% to 9.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from JAC (JAC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.6% of the vote between them, up from 79.1% — 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
30,314
Margin
2,960
9.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KAMLA KUMARIIndian National Congress · INC15,06749.7%
- 2VIJAI BAHADURBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,10739.9%
- 3SHYAMLALIndependent · IND1,2454.1%
- 4BRIJMOHANLALIndependent · IND1,1103.7%
- 5SACHIDANANDIndependent · IND7852.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −41.8%
- INC share
- 60.7% → 49.7%
- BJS share
- 9.1% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- — → —