Constituency
124. Dhamtari
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-DHAMTARI
INC 46.0%won by 2.8%BJS 43.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.9% to 2.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.1% between them, down from 96.1% — 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
56,220
Margin
1,578
2.81%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KESHRIMALIndian National Congress · INC25,84346.0%
- 2HANUMAN PRASAD SHOBHARAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS24,26543.2%
- 3PANDURANG RAO GANPAT RAOIndependent · IND2,1173.8%
- 4RAMSEWAK RAMBHAROSASOP · SOP1,7963.2%
- 5BUDHARCHANDIndependent · IND1,3482.4%
- 6CHAMPALAL RANULALIndependent · IND4890.9%
- 7KANHAYALAL GOVINDRAMIndependent · IND3620.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −4.1%
- INC share
- 51.5% → 46.0%
- BJS share
- 44.6% → 43.2%
- Turnout
- — → —