Constituency
250. Mhow
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-MHOW
INC 64.0%won by 39.1%BJS 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.2% to 39.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.8% of the vote between them, up from 81.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
38,905
Margin
15,225
39.13%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PRAKASH CHAND SETHIIndian National Congress · INC24,88864.0%
- 2KRISHNA GOPAL MAHESHWARIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,66324.8%
- 3SHIV SHANKER PATELSOP · SOP3,4258.8%
- 4DEVILAL RIYARNCO · NCO9292.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +16.9%
- INC share
- 52.0% → 64.0%
- BJS share
- 29.8% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- — → —