Constituency
269. Khargone
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-KHARGONE
INC 51.0%won by 16.2%BJS 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.4% to 16.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — 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
36,237
Margin
5,872
16.20%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDRAKANTA R. KHODEIndian National Congress · INC18,46851.0%
- 2BHALCHANDRA S BAGDAREBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,59634.8%
- 3S. SHAMSUDDIN S. ABDULSOP · SOP3,0728.5%
- 4MANORANJAN CHAUHANIndependent · IND1,2163.4%
- 5NAGESHWAR RAJARAM TRIVEDIIndependent · IND8852.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −15.2%
- INC share
- 60.9% → 51.0%
- BJS share
- 29.5% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —