Constituency
172. Jabalpur East
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-JABALPUR-EAST
INC 56.6%won by 36.4%BJS 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.8% to 36.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.8% between them, down from 87.1% — 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
41,806
Margin
15,197
36.35%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNAAWATAR BHANOTIndian National Congress · INC23,64756.6%
- 2CHAANJITLAL SAHANIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,45020.2%
- 3K. L. DUBESOP · SOP7,76218.6%
- 4SHIKHARCHAND JAINIndependent · IND1,0612.5%
- 5TEKCHAND AHIRWARIndependent · IND7911.9%
- 6SHIVSHANKAR SINGHIndependent · IND950.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +29.5%
- INC share
- 47.0% → 56.6%
- BJS share
- 40.1% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —