Constituency
137. Maro
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-MARO
INC 64.5%won by 42.0%BJS 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.4% to 42.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.9% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- 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
26,955
Margin
11,333
42.04%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KISHANIndian National Congress · INC17,37364.5%
- 2REKHALALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,04022.4%
- 3DHARAM PRASAD PATREIndependent · IND3,54213.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +37.7%
- INC share
- 52.2% → 64.5%
- BJS share
- 47.8% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —