Constituency
248. Barnagar
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-BARNAGAR
INC 46.4%won by 2.0%BJS 44.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.0% to 46.4% of the vote here (+17.4%).
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 44.4% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.8% between them, down from 95.9% — the field split more ways.
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
45,382
Margin
927
2.04%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1ABHYASINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,06946.4%
- 2SAWANTSINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS20,14244.4%
- 3RAMPRAKASH MALHOTRASOP · SOP4,1719.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- −27.0%
- INC share
- 29.0% → 46.4%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 44.4%
- Turnout
- — → —