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225. Bhopal

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972

MP-BHOPAL

CPI 54.1%won by 16.4%BJS 37.7%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.8% to 16.4%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.9% of the vote between them, up from 73.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
47,504
Margin
7,797
16.41%

Candidates

10 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1S. ALI KHAN N. ALI KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI25,71854.1%
  2. 2S. A. SOBHANI ASUMALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS17,92137.7%
  3. 3HARI NARAIN AGARWALIndependent · IND9982.1%
  4. 4KUNDANLAL NANHELALIndependent · IND6901.5%
  5. 5VICHITRA KUMAR UMA CHARANNCO · NCO4801.0%
  6. 6MUYEEAHMED KHANIndependent · IND4480.9%
  7. 7ANWAR AMIR HASHMIIndependent · IND3940.8%
  8. 8ASHOK SHARMAIndependent · IND3520.7%
  9. 9K. ARORA SHYAMLALIndependent · IND2790.6%
  10. 10A. KHAN NASURULLA KHANSOP · SOP2240.5%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–BJS swing
+7.6%
CPI share
41.0% → 54.1%
BJS share
32.2% → 37.7%
Turnout
— → —
224. Sehore226. Govindpura
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