Constituency
98. Bilaspur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-BILASPUR
INC 60.8%won by 27.7%BJS 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.9% to 27.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 85.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
39,126
Margin
10,825
27.67%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHRIDHAR MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC23,78960.8%
- 2BABA RAOBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,96433.1%
- 3RAMAKISHORE PANDESOP · SOP1,2123.1%
- 4NAMDAR KHANIndependent · IND1,1613.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +18.8%
- INC share
- 47.0% → 60.8%
- BJS share
- 38.1% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —