Constituency
215. Itarsi
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-ITARSI
INC 56.1%won by 17.7%BJS 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.4% to 17.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from JAC (JAC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.4% of the vote between them, up from 72.1% — 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
35,189
Margin
6,239
17.73%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1HARI PRASAD CHATURVEDIIndian National Congress · INC19,72856.1%
- 2BHAIYA NARMADA PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,48938.3%
- 3SITAL PRASAD MISHRASOP · SOP1,9725.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −25.3%
- INC share
- 51.8% → 56.1%
- BJS share
- 8.8% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —