Constituency
249. Depalpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-DEPALPUR
INC 38.7%won by 0.5%SOP 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.1% to 0.5%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 38.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.9% of the vote between them, up from 62.8% — 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
41,560
Margin
217
0.52%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RAMCHANDRA AGRAWALIndian National Congress · INC16,09238.7%
- 2BAPUSINGH MANDLOISOP · SOP15,87538.2%
- 3KANTILAL TANSUKHLALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,80518.8%
- 4DILAWAR KHAN CHHOTE KHANIndependent · IND1,5943.8%
- 5RAMESHWAR GANPATIndependent · IND1940.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −31.9%
- INC share
- 32.4% → 38.7%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- — → —