Constituency
88. Sarangarh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-SARANGARH
INC 34.0%won by 1.3%IND 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 67.2% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 43.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.7% between them, down from 88.4% — 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
23,877
Margin
309
1.29%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SHEO PRASAD GOTIAIndian National Congress · INC8,11734.0%
- 2AWADHA RAM BHARDWAJIndependent · IND7,80832.7%
- 3KANTHA RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,26722.1%
- 4MAKHANIndependent · IND1,9468.2%
- 5DAMROODHAR JOLHESOP · SOP7393.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −68.6%
- INC share
- 77.8% → 34.0%
- IND share
- 7.9% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- — → —