Constituency
286. Sailana
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-SAILANA
INC 58.3%won by 19.4%SOP 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.2% to 19.4%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 38.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 87.4% — 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
37,053
Margin
7,179
19.37%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1PRABHUDAYAL GEHIOTEIndian National Congress · INC21,60458.3%
- 2LAXMANSINGH JHITRASOP · SOP14,42538.9%
- 3SARDARSINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0242.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −27.9%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 58.3%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —