Constituency
227. Bairagarh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-BAIRAGARH
BJS 44.0%won by 3.4%INC 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.5% to 3.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
40,259
Margin
1,371
3.41%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJS- 1LAXMI NARAIN SHARMABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS17,71844.0%
- 2SATYA NARAIN AGRAWALIndian National Congress · INC16,34740.6%
- 3KAMAL SINGH DAYA RAMNCO · NCO2,1245.3%
- 4SHEODAS HIRALALIndependent · IND1,1983.0%
- 5G. BHAVAN DA DENANIIndependent · IND1,1402.8%
- 6SHAFIQ AHMADIndependent · IND1,1112.8%
- 7GOVIND RAM LAL CHANDSOP · SOP6211.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- −25.1%
- BJS share
- 56.6% → 44.0%
- INC share
- 28.1% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —