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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1972 Mysore Legislative Assembly election
| swing2 = 
| leader2 =
| party2 = Indian National Congress (Organisation)
| leader_since2 =
| leaders_seat2 =
| last_election2 =
| seats2 = 24
| seat_change2 =
| popular_vote2 = 2,361,308
| percentage2 = 26.22%
| map_image =
| swing1 =
| map_size =
| map_alt =
| map =
| map_caption = 
| title = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister of Mysore]]
| before_election = Vacant
| before_party = [[President's rule]]
| posttitle = [[Chief Minister of Karnataka|Chief Minister of Mysore]]
| after_election = [[D. Devaraj Urs]]
| image2 =
| percentage1 = 52.17%
| country = India
| seats_for_election = All 216 seats in the [[Mysore Legislative Assembly]]
| type = parliamentary
| vote_type = Popular 
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1967 Mysore Legislative Assembly election
| previous_year = 1967
| election_date = 1972
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1978 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 1978
| majority_seats = 109
| popular_vote1 = 4,698,824
| registered =
| turnout =
| image1 =
| leader1 =
| party1 = Indian National Congress
| leader_since1 =
| leaders_seat1 =
| last_election1 =
| seats1 = 165
| seat_change1 =
| after_party = Indian National Congress
}}The '''1972 Mysore State Legislative Assembly election''' was held in the [[India]]n state of [[Mysore State|Mysore]] (currently [[Karnataka]]) to elect 216 members to the [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly|Mysore Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3775-karnataka-1972/|title=Karnataka 1972|last=|first=|date=|website=[[Election Commission of India]]|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

== Results ==
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the Mysore Legislative Assembly election, 1972|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Contestants 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote share 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Net change 
|-style="background: #90EE90;"
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||212||165||{{increase}} 39||4,698,824||52.17%||{{increase}} 3.74
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress (Organisation)}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress (Organisation)]]||176||24||||2,361,308||26.22%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||4||3||||88,978||0.99%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Samyukta Socialist Party}}
|align="left"|[[Samyukta Socialist Party]]||29||3||{{decrease}} 3||152,556||1.69%|| {{decrease}} 0.78
|-
| {{party color cell|}}
|align="left"|[[Janata Paksha Party]]||2||1||||14,390||0.16%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||||20||{{decrease}} 21||1,159,383||12.87%||
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||||'''216'''||||''''''||||
|-
|}

==References==
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