Constituency
127. Kanker
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-KANKER
INC 33.1%won by 4.5%IND 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.2% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.6% — 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 61.7% between them, down from 73.2% — 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
23,093
Margin
1,040
4.50%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1VISHRAM DHONGAIIndian National Congress · INC7,64133.1%
- 2PILARAM VIKE RAJURAMIndependent · IND6,60128.6%
- 3ATMARAM SARHAIndependent · IND4,62420.0%
- 4HAISHANKAR RAMNATHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,32514.4%
- 5NILAMBAR SINGH BARSAISOP · SOP9023.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −31.4%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 33.1%
- IND share
- 8.7% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —