Constituency
156. Kirnapur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-KIRNAPUR
INC 68.3%won by 36.6%RPK 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.9% to 36.6%.
- New challengerRPK (RPK) finished second with 31.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 77.1% — 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
32,824
Margin
12,024
36.63%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1JHANKARSINGHIndian National Congress · INC22,42468.3%
- 2YOGESHCHANDRARPK · RPK10,40031.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RPK swing
- −18.9%
- INC share
- 55.5% → 68.3%
- RPK share
- 0.0% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —