Constituency
214. Hoshangabad
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-HOSHANGABAD
INC 41.9%won by 3.8%IND 38.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.7% to 3.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.9% of the vote between them, up from 64.7% — 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
33,028
Margin
1,270
3.85%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SUSHILA DIXITIndian National Congress · INC13,82441.9%
- 2BHAWANI SHANKAR SHARMAIndependent · IND12,55438.0%
- 3SANTOSH KUMAR GAURIndependent · IND5,68017.2%
- 4PURAN SHOBHAIndependent · IND9702.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −20.7%
- INC share
- 42.2% → 41.9%
- IND share
- 17.6% → 38.0%
- Turnout
- — → —