Constituency
99. Bilha
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-BILHA
INC 41.4%won by 22.8%IND 18.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.2% to 22.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.9% — 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 60.0% between them, down from 89.5% — 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
28,584
Margin
6,515
22.79%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1CHITRAKANT JAISWALIndian National Congress · INC11,83041.4%
- 2BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD GORHAIndependent · IND5,31518.6%
- 3RAMESHKUMAR GIRDHARILALIndependent · IND4,14714.5%
- 4RAMKHILAVAN VERMABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,04414.1%
- 5BHANGIIndependent · IND2,2367.8%
- 6BALMAKUND AGRAWALIndependent · IND6042.1%
- 7LAKHANLAL YADUIndependent · IND2140.7%
- 8VYASNARAYAN AVADHRAMIndependent · IND1940.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −32.8%
- INC share
- 62.3% → 41.4%
- IND share
- 6.8% → 18.6%
- Turnout
- — → —