Constituency
119. Pithora
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-PITHORA
INC 38.0%won by 15.4%SOP 22.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.3% to 15.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 22.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.7% between them, down from 75.8% — 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
33,623
Margin
5,171
15.38%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1THAMKUR BHANUPRATAP SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,78638.0%
- 2JIWANLAL PALTOORAMSOP · SOP7,61522.6%
- 3PURSHOTTAMLAL C. DASBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,44622.1%
- 4PANCHAM SINGHIndependent · IND2,0786.2%
- 5NARAYAN PRASADIndependent · IND1,1343.4%
- 6KAPUR CHANDIndependent · IND1,0193.0%
- 7THAKUR SINGH SHIVSINGHIndependent · IND7162.1%
- 8SAMAROO BODHANIndependent · IND4281.3%
- 9NARESHCHAND SAGARCHANDIndependent · IND4011.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −34.2%
- INC share
- 49.6% → 38.0%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —