Constituency
265. Burhanpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-BURHANPUR
BJS 55.0%won by 11.5%INC 43.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.0% to 11.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.6% of the vote between them, up from 90.0% — 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
42,270
Margin
4,874
11.53%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BJS- 1BRIJMOHAN D. MISHRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS23,26855.0%
- 2NOOR ALIIndian National Congress · INC18,39443.5%
- 3ZAHIR AHMEDNCO · NCO6081.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–INC swing
- +8.5%
- BJS share
- 46.5% → 55.0%
- INC share
- 43.5% → 43.5%
- Turnout
- — → —