Constituency
212. Piparia
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-PIPARIA
INC 43.6%won by 12.5%SOP 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.7% to 12.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 31.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.6% between them, down from 82.1% — the field split more ways.
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
27,568
Margin
3,447
12.50%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1RATAN KUMARI DEVIIndian National Congress · INC12,01343.6%
- 2NARAAN DAS MOURYASOP · SOP8,56631.1%
- 3CHAUDHARY MAHESH KUMARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,98925.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −36.9%
- INC share
- 49.4% → 43.6%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- — → —