Constituency
50. Rewa
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1972
MP-REWA
INC 50.0%won by 7.2%SOP 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.1% to 7.2%.
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 42.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.8% of the vote between them, up from 84.2% — 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
44,874
Margin
3,249
7.24%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MUNI PRASAD SHUKLAIndian National Congress · INC22,44650.0%
- 2JAGDISH CHANDRA JOSHISOP · SOP19,19742.8%
- 3MADHAV PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,8904.2%
- 4GURU VIDYA BHUSHANIndependent · IND9612.1%
- 5RAMKRIPAL TAMRAKARIndependent · IND3800.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOP swing
- −40.9%
- INC share
- 48.2% → 50.0%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- — → —