Constituency
140. Bhilai Nagar
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-BHILAI-NAGAR
INC 55.7%won by 33.7%BJS 22.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.4% to 33.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.7% of the vote between them, up from 63.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
57,364
Margin
19,321
33.68%
Candidates
15 contested · winner INC- 1PHOOLCHAND BAFNAIndian National Congress · INC31,94855.7%
- 2BISHAL PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,62722.0%
- 3DEVSHARAN DUBESOP · SOP4,7028.2%
- 4T. ACHYUT MENONIndependent · IND2,2593.9%
- 5SHISHIRKUMAR GEORGEIndependent · IND1,7793.1%
- 6H. C. SADASHIV RAMTEKOIndependent · IND1,2692.2%
- 7SURESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND6841.2%
- 8VISHWAMITRA KASHIKIndependent · IND3940.7%
- 9B. VIJIYANIndependent · IND3480.6%
- 10RAMNARAYAN MISHRAIndependent · IND3300.6%
- 11SHARAN CHANDRA THAKURIndependent · IND3090.5%
- 12L .S. NAIRIndependent · IND2440.4%
- 13GIRJANAND JHAIndependent · IND2160.4%
- 14KRISHNAKANT MISHRAIndependent · IND1780.3%
- 15BASANT KRISHNA THAKURIndependent · IND770.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +6.3%
- INC share
- 45.6% → 55.7%
- BJS share
- 18.2% → 22.0%
- Turnout
- — → —