Constituency
44. Maihar
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-MAIHAR
INC 39.6%won by 6.5%IND 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.9% to 6.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- Multi-cornered4 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
44,540
Margin
2,884
6.48%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1LALJI PATELIndian National Congress · INC17,64339.6%
- 2NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND14,75933.1%
- 3GAYARAM SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,00118.0%
- 4DEEN DAYALSOP · SOP2,2395.0%
- 5RAM YASIndependent · IND1,8984.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −7.6%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 39.6%
- IND share
- 26.6% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —