Constituency
134. Dantewara
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-DANTEWARA
INC 48.8%won by 18.9%SOP 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 11.2% to 48.8% of the vote here (+37.7%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 29.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.8% of the vote between them, up from 67.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
27,948
Margin
5,284
18.91%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1LAKSHMAN KARMAIndian National Congress · INC13,64948.8%
- 2LACHHU SOMASOP · SOP8,36529.9%
- 3RAMA BOTIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,93421.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- +7.7%
- INC share
- 11.2% → 48.8%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —