Constituency
112. Baloda Bazar
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-BALODA-BAZAR
INC 55.4%won by 28.2%BJS 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.1% to 28.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.6% of the vote between them, up from 74.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
40,644
Margin
11,447
28.16%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DOLATRAM RAMDAYALIndian National Congress · INC22,51555.4%
- 2SURYAPRASAD URF MANNOOLALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS11,06827.2%
- 3SHYAMLALSwatantra Party · SWA5,46413.4%
- 4RAMNATHAMARNATHIndependent · IND1,5973.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −2.9%
- INC share
- 52.9% → 55.4%
- BJS share
- 21.8% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- — → —