Constituency
141. Durg City
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-DURG-CITY
INC 70.0%won by 60.7%IND 9.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.2% to 60.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- 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
35,452
Margin
21,535
60.74%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1MOTILAL VORAIndian National Congress · INC24,82270.0%
- 2VISHNOO PRASAD SHUKLAIndependent · IND3,2879.3%
- 3ROOPLAL DEVANGANIndependent · IND2,0455.8%
- 4UDAYARAMIndependent · IND1,5184.3%
- 5MEHTAR RAMIndependent · IND1,5014.2%
- 6BHISHAM LAL DESHMUKHIndependent · IND1,2243.5%
- 7RAMESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND6141.7%
- 8NARSINGH SAHUIndependent · IND4411.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +16.9%
- INC share
- 55.8% → 70.0%
- IND share
- 11.9% → 9.3%
- Turnout
- — → —