1972 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in March 1972. These were the elections to the legislative assembly having 296 seats in undivided Madhya Pradesh. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Prakash Chandra Sethi was sworn in as the new Chief Minister.

After the 1962 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, the number of constituencies in Madhya Pradesh were increased to 296, following the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.

Results

Source:

#	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	Seats Changed	% Votes
1	Indian National Congress	289	220	Template:Increase53	47.93%
1	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	260	48	Template:Decrease30	28.64%
3	Samyukta Socialist Party/Socialist Party	172	7	N/A	6.24%
4	Communist Party of India	30	3	Template:Increase2	1.02%
7	Independent	296	18	Template:Decrease4	14.73%
	Total		296

Elected members

Constituency	Reserved for	Member	Party
Sheopur	None	Lokendra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Bijeypur	None	Jagmohan Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Sabalgarh	None	Raghubar Dayal Rasoiya	Template:Full party name with color
Joura	None	Ramcharan Lal Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Morena	None	Maharaj Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Dimni	SC	Chhawi Ram	Template:Full party name with color
Ambah	SC	Raja Ram Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Gohad	SC	Bhure Lal	Template:Full party name with color
Mehgaon	None	Rameshwar Dayal Dantre	Template:Full party name with color
Attair	None	Rameshwar Dayal Arele	Template:Full party name with color
Bhind	None	Navin Chandra Bhoota	Template:Full party name with color
Ron	None	Rasal Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Lahar	None	Raghavram Chaudhary	Template:Full party name with color
Gwalior	None	Srrvate Ramchandra	Template:Full party name with color
Lashkar	None	Sitila Sahai	Template:Full party name with color
Morar	None	Rajendra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Gird	None	Vijayaraje Scindhia	Template:Full party name with color
Dabra	None	Pahadsingh	Template:Full party name with color
Bhander	SC	Chaturbhuj Morya	Template:Full party name with color
Seondha	None	Shiv Charan	Template:Full party name with color
Datia	None	Gulab Chand Kannoolal	Template:Full party name with color
Karera	None	Hardas Gupta	Template:Full party name with color
Pohri	SC	Babu Lal	Template:Full party name with color
Shivpuri	None	Sushil B. Ashathana	Template:Full party name with color
Pichhore	None	Bhanu Pratap Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Kolaras	None	Jagadish Prasad Verma	Template:Full party name with color
Guna	None	Shivpratap Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Chachaura	None	Krishnvallabh Gupta	Template:Full party name with color
Raghogarh	SC	Harlal Shakyawar	Template:Full party name with color
Ashoknagar	None	Mahendra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Mungaoli	None	Gajra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Niwari	None	Luxmi Narayan Nayak	Template:Full party name with color
Jatara	None	Ram Krishna Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Kharagpur	SC	Baiju Ahirwar	Template:Full party name with color
Tikamgarh	None	Sardar Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Malehra	None	Dashrath	Template:Full party name with color
Bijawar	None	Yadvendra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Chhatarpur	None	Mahendra Kumar	Template:Full party name with color
Maharajpur	SC	Nathoo Ram	Template:Full party name with color
Laundi	None	Baboo Ram Chaturvedi	Template:Full party name with color
Panna	None	Het Ram Dube	Template:Full party name with color
Amanganj	SC	Tatu Lal	Template:Full party name with color
Pawai	None	Jagdish Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Maihar	None	Lalji Patel	Template:Full party name with color
Nagod	SC	Bala Prasad	Template:Full party name with color
Satna	None	Kanta	Template:Full party name with color
Chitrakoot	None	Ram Chandra Bajpayee	Template:Full party name with color
Ranpur Baghelan	None	Toshan Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Amarpatan	None	Gulsher Ahmed	Template:Full party name with color
Rewa	None	Muni Prasad Shukla	Template:Full party name with color
Sirmaur	None	Rajmani Patel	Template:Full party name with color
Teonthar	None	Triveni Prasad	Template:Full party name with color
Mangawan	None	Shriniwas Tiwari	Template:Full party name with color
Gurh	None	Rampal Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Deotalab	SC	Ramkhelavan	Template:Full party name with color
Mauganj	None	Ramdhani Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Churahat	None	Chandra Pratap	Template:Full party name with color
Sidhi	None	Arjun Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Deosar	ST	Balraj	Template:Full party name with color
Singrauli	None	Shyamkartik Ram	Template:Full party name with color
Gopadbanas	ST	Jagwa	Template:Full party name with color
Beohari	None	Ramgopal Gupta	Template:Full party name with color
Umaria	None	Ranvijaya Pratap Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Naorozabad	ST	Jagan Nath Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Jaisingnagar	ST	Kamala Prasad	Template:Full party name with color
Sohagpur	None	Krishnapal Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Pushparajgarh	ST	Dalbir Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Kotma	None	Mrigendra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Jaitpur	ST	Bhagwandin	Template:Full party name with color
Manendragarh	ST	Dharam Pal	Template:Full party name with color
Baikunthpur	None	Ramchandra Singh Deo	Template:Full party name with color
Premnagar	ST	Bhuvneshwar	Template:Full party name with color
Surajpur	None	Dhirendranath	Template:Full party name with color
Pal	ST	Deosai	Template:Full party name with color
Samri	ST	Larangsai	Template:Full party name with color
Lundra	ST	Chamru Ram	Template:Full party name with color
Ambikapur	None	Devendra Khumari	Template:Full party name with color
Lakhanpur	None	Satyanarayan	Template:Full party name with color
Sitapur	ST	Sukhi Ram	Template:Full party name with color
Bagicha	ST	Narhari Prasad Sai	Template:Full party name with color
Jashpur	ST	Luis Bega	Template:Full party name with color
Tapkara	ST	Dineshwar Sai	Template:Full party name with color
Pathalgaon	ST	Laljit Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Dharamjaigarh	None	Vaidya Begraj Sharma	Template:Full party name with color
Gharghoda	ST	Surendra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Raigarh	None	Ramkumar Agrawal	Template:Full party name with color
Pussour	None	Kamla Kumari	Template:Full party name with color
Sarangarh	SC	Sheo Prasad Gotia	Template:Full party name with color
Rampur	ST	Pyarelal Sheoprasad	Template:Full party name with color
Kotghora	None	Bodhram	Template:Full party name with color
Tanakhar	ST	Lal Kirtikumar Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Marwahi	ST	Bhavar Singh Porte	Template:Full party name with color
Kota	None	Mathuraprasad Dube	Template:Full party name with color
Lormi	None	Rajendra Prasad Shukla	Template:Full party name with color
Mungeli	SC	Ganeshram Anant	Template:Full party name with color
Jarhagaon	None	Mohammad Bashir Khan	Template:Full party name with color
Takhatpur	None	Rohani Kumar	Template:Full party name with color
Bilaspur	None	Shridhar Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Bilha	None	Chitrakant Jaiswal	Template:Full party name with color
Masturi	SC	Godil Prasad	Template:Full party name with color
Pamgarh	SC	Kulpatsingh Kupitram	Template:Full party name with color
Akaltara	None	Rajendra Kumar Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Baloda	None	Radheshyam Shukla	Template:Full party name with color
Champa	None	Bisahudas Mahant	Template:Full party name with color
Sakti	None	Pushpendranath Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Malkharoda	SC	Pooranlal Jangade	Template:Full party name with color
Chandrapur	None	Bhawanilal Verma	Template:Full party name with color
Abhanpur	None	Chetram Parshottam	Template:Full party name with color
Raipur	None	Sudhirmukherji	Template:Full party name with color
Arang	SC	Kanhaiyalal Kosariya	Template:Full party name with color
Dharsiwan	None	Munnalal Shukla	Template:Full party name with color
Baloda Bazar	None	Dolatram Ramdayal	Template:Full party name with color
Bhatapara	None	Shivlal Mehta	Template:Full party name with color
Palari	SC	Phoolsingh	Template:Full party name with color
Kasdol	None	Kanhaiyalal Sharma	Template:Full party name with color
Bhatgaon	SC	Reshamlal Tikaram	Template:Full party name with color
Saraipali	None	V. B. Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Basna	None	Laxman Jaideo	Template:Full party name with color
Pithora	None	Thamkur Bhanupratap Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Mahasamund	None	Purushottamlal K. Dhaluram	Template:Full party name with color
Rajim	None	Shyamcharan Shukla	Template:Full party name with color
Bindranawagarh	ST	Parwati K. P. Shah	Template:Full party name with color
Sihawa	ST	Pusauram	Template:Full party name with color
Dhamtari	None	Keshrimal	Template:Full party name with color
Kurud	None	Yeshwant Rao Meghawale	Template:Full party name with color
Bhanupratappur	ST	Satyanarain Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Kanker	ST	Vishram Dhongai	Template:Full party name with color
Keskai	ST	Ganga Ram Rana	Template:Full party name with color
Kondagaon	ST	Mankuram Sodi	Template:Full party name with color
Bakawand	ST	Jhitruram	Template:Full party name with color
Jagdalpur	ST	Baliram Kashyap Mahadev	Template:Full party name with color
Chitrakote	ST	Ramakonda	Template:Full party name with color
Konta	ST	Beti Harma	Template:Full party name with color
Dantewara	ST	Lakshman Karma	Template:Full party name with color
Bijapur	ST	Kistaiya Papaiya	Template:Full party name with color
Narayanpur	ST	Ratiram	Template:Full party name with color
Maro	SC	Kishan	Template:Full party name with color
Bemetara	None	Laxman Prasad Vaidya	Template:Full party name with color
Dhamdha	SC	Tumanlal	Template:Full party name with color
Bhilai	None	Phoolchand Bafna	Template:Full party name with color
Durg	None	Motilal Vora	Template:Full party name with color
Bhathagaon	None	Kejouram	Template:Full party name with color
Gunderdehi	None	Ghanaram Sahu	Template:Full party name with color
Balod	None	Hiralal Sonboir	Template:Full party name with color
Dondi Lohara	ST	Jhumuklal Bhendia	Template:Full party name with color
Chowki	ST	Gobardhan	Template:Full party name with color
Khujji	None	Baldev Prasad Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Rajnandgaon	None	Kishorilal	Template:Full party name with color
Dongargaon	None	S. Jairam Ayyar	Template:Full party name with color
Dongargarh	None	Hiraram Ramsewak	Template:Full party name with color
Khairagarh	None	Vijayalal Oswal	Template:Full party name with color
Bireudranagar	None	Deviprasad Choube	Template:Full party name with color
Kawardha	None	Kumar Yashwant Raj Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Baihar	ST	Sudhanwasingh	Template:Full party name with color
Lanji	None	Narbada Pd. Shrivastava	Template:Full party name with color
Kirnapur	None	Jhankarsingh	Template:Full party name with color
Waraseoni	None	Thansingh	Template:Full party name with color
Khairalanjee	None	Madhusudan	Template:Full party name with color
Katangi	None	Chittor Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Balaghat	None	Nandkishor	Template:Full party name with color
Paraswada	None	Tejlal Tembhre	Template:Full party name with color
Mandla	None	Narayani Devi	Template:Full party name with color
Bichhiya	ST	Darbari Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Ghughri	ST	Shyamlal Ujiyar	Template:Full party name with color
Bajag	ST	Mohansingh Daulatsingh	Template:Full party name with color
Dindori	ST	Sunderlal Ureti	Template:Full party name with color
Niwas	ST	Anoopsingh Harisingh	Template:Full party name with color
Bargi	None	Nathusingh	Template:Full party name with color
Panagar	None	Girwar Singh Patel	Template:Full party name with color
Jabalpur Cantonment	None	Manmohandas	Template:Full party name with color
Jabalpur West	None	Sawaimal	Template:Full party name with color
Jabalpur East	None	Krishnaawatar Bhanot	Template:Full party name with color
Patan	SC	Motilal Shenkar	Template:Full party name with color
Katangi	None	Satendraprasad Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Sihora	None	Parmanandbhai	Template:Full party name with color
Bahoriband	None	Kunjbihari Lal	Template:Full party name with color
Murwara	None	Lakhan Singh Solanki	Template:Full party name with color
Badwara	None	N. V. Raman	Template:Full party name with color
Vijairaghogarh	None	Ramrani Johar	Template:Full party name with color
Nohata	None	Thakur Neknarayan Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Damoh	None	Anand Kumar	Template:Full party name with color
Hatta	None	Kunjbiharilal Manmohanlal	Template:Full party name with color
Patharia	SC	Gopal Das Munnilal	Template:Full party name with color
Banda	None	Shri Krishna Selat	Template:Full party name with color
Bina	None	Dalchand Bhagwandas	Template:Full party name with color
Khurai	SC	Liladhar	Template:Full party name with color
Sagar	None	Jwalaprasad Jyotishi	Template:Full party name with color
Surkhi	SC	Gaya Prasad Kabirpanthi	Template:Full party name with color
Rehli	None	Gourishankar Pathak	Template:Full party name with color
Deori	None	Dwarika Prasad Katare	Template:Full party name with color
Gadarwara	None	Hari Shanker Sthapak	Template:Full party name with color
Bohani	None	Agarwal L. N. Khajanchi	Template:Full party name with color
Nasimhapur	None	S. S. Narayan Mushram	Template:Full party name with color
Gotegaon	None	Narsingdas	Template:Full party name with color
Lakhnadon	ST	Basantrao Uikey	Template:Full party name with color
Chhapara	ST	Satendrasingh Thakur	Template:Full party name with color
Keolari	None	Vimla K. P. Verma	Template:Full party name with color
Barghat	None	Jageshwarnath Bisen	Template:Full party name with color
Seoni	None	Nityendra Nath Sheel	Template:Full party name with color
Chhindwara	None	Jagdish Prasad Chandrakar	Template:Full party name with color
Parasia	SC	Barikrao Amrutrao	Template:Full party name with color
Damua	ST	Rajkumari Gyanda	Template:Full party name with color
Amarwara	ST	Udayabhanshah	Template:Full party name with color
Chaurai	None	Laxminarayan Lalji Prasad	Template:Full party name with color
Sausar	None	Manikrao Narayanrao	Template:Full party name with color
Pandhurna	None	Madhavlal Dube Mikulal	Template:Full party name with color
Multai	None	Radhakrishna Garg Vakeel	Template:Full party name with color
Masod	None	Ramji Chhitraiya Mahajan	Template:Full party name with color
Bhainsdehi	ST	Kalyasingh Balaji	Template:Full party name with color
Betul	None	Maruti Narayanrao	Template:Full party name with color
Ghoradongri	ST	Bishram Gurdi	Template:Full party name with color
Piparia	None	Ratan Kumari Devi	Template:Full party name with color
Denwa	None	Vinay Kumar Diwan	Template:Full party name with color
Hoshangabad	None	Sushila Dixit	Template:Full party name with color
Itarsi	None	Hari Prasad Chaturvedi	Template:Full party name with color
Timarni	SC	Kheeprasad Bastabad	Template:Full party name with color
Harda	None	Nanhelal Patel	Template:Full party name with color
Sanchi	SC	Dulichand	Template:Full party name with color
Udaipura	None	Goutam Sharma	Template:Full party name with color
Bereli	None	Jaswant Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Ghojpur	None	Gulabchand	Template:Full party name with color
Budhni	None	Saligram Vakil	Template:Full party name with color
Ashta	SC	Umrao Singh Dariya Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Sehore	None	Aziz Qureshi	Template:Full party name with color
Bhopal	None	Khan Shakir Ali Khan	Template:Full party name with color
Govindpura	None	Mohanlal Asthana	Template:Full party name with color
Bairagarh	None	Laxmi Narain Sharma	Template:Full party name with color
Berasia	None	Gauri Shankar Kaushal	Template:Full party name with color
Kurwai	None	Awadh Narayan	Template:Full party name with color
Vidisha	None	Surya Prakash	Template:Full party name with color
Basoda	SC	Sita Ram	Template:Full party name with color
Sironj	None	I. Khan Tarzi Mashriqul	Template:Full party name with color
Biaora	None	Ram Karan Ugra	Template:Full party name with color
Narsingarh	None	Mangi Lal Bhandari	Template:Full party name with color
Sarangpur	SC	Sajjan Singh Vishnar	Template:Full party name with color
Rajgarh	None	Gulab Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Khilchipur	None	Prabhu Dayal Choube	Template:Full party name with color
Shujalpur	None	Rameshwar Dayal Sharma	Template:Full party name with color
Gulana	None	Ramesh Dube	Template:Full party name with color
Shajapur	None	Tara P. Chandra Sharma	Template:Full party name with color
Susner	None	Haribhau Joshi	Template:Full party name with color
Agar	SC	Madhukar Marmat	Template:Full party name with color
Tarana	None	Lakshminarayan Jain	Template:Full party name with color
Mahidpur	None	Narayan Prasad Sharma	Template:Full party name with color
Ujjain North	None	Prakash Chand Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
Ujjain South	SC	Durgadas Suryavansi	Template:Full party name with color
Khacharod	None	Kunwar Veerendra Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Barnagar	None	Abhyasingh	Template:Full party name with color
Depalpur	None	Ramchandra Agrawal	Template:Full party name with color
Mhow	None	Prakash Chand Sethi	Template:Full party name with color
Indore 1	None	Mahesh Joshi	Template:Full party name with color
Indore 2	None	Homi Daji	Template:Full party name with color
Indore 3	None	Chandra Prabhash Shekhar	Template:Full party name with color
Indore 4	None	Narayan Prasad Shukla	Template:Full party name with color
Sawer	SC	Radhakrishan Malviya	Template:Full party name with color
Dewas	None	Dhirajsingh Mohansingh	Template:Full party name with color
Sonkatch	SC	Bapulal Kishanlal	Template:Full party name with color
Bagli	None	Kailashchandra Umashankar	Template:Full party name with color
Khategaon	None	Manjulabai Vagle	Template:Full party name with color
Harsud	None	Kalicharan Sakargaye	Template:Full party name with color
Nimarkhedi	None	Raghunath Rao Mandloi	Template:Full party name with color
Pandhana	SC	Sakharam Deokaran	Template:Full party name with color
Khandwa	None	Gangacharan Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Shahpur	None	Shivkumarsingh Nawalsingh	Template:Full party name with color
Burhanpur	None	Brijmohan D. Mishra	Template:Full party name with color
Bhikangaon	None	Rana Balbahadur Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Barwaha	None	Amolakchand Chajed	Template:Full party name with color
Maheshwar	SC	Sitaram Sadhuram	Template:Full party name with color
Khargone	None	Chandrakanta R. Khode	Template:Full party name with color
Dhulkot	ST	Sobhagsingh Dhyansingh	Template:Full party name with color
Sendhwa	ST	Shobharam Patel	Template:Full party name with color
Rajpur	ST	Barku Mahadu Chouhan	Template:Full party name with color
Anjad	None	Babu G. Solanki	Template:Full party name with color
Barwani	ST	Umraosingh Parwatsingh	Template:Full party name with color
Manawar	ST	Shivbhanu Solanki	Template:Full party name with color
Dharampuri	ST	Fatebhansingh Ramsingh	Template:Full party name with color
Dhar	None	Surendrasingh Gangasingh	Template:Full party name with color
Badnawar	None	Chiranjilal Alawa	Template:Full party name with color
Sardarpur	SC	Babusingh Alawa	Template:Full party name with color
Kukshi	ST	Pratapsingh Baghel	Template:Full party name with color
Alirajpur	ST	Magan Singh Patel	Template:Full party name with color
Jobat	ST	Ajmersingh	Template:Full party name with color
Jhabua	ST	Gangabai	Template:Full party name with color
Thandla	ST	Manna	Template:Full party name with color
Petlawad	ST	Dileep Singh	Template:Full party name with color
Sailana	ST	Prabhudayal Gehiote	Template:Full party name with color
Ratlam	None	Akbarali Arif	Template:Full party name with color
Jaora	None	Bankatelal Todi	Template:Full party name with color
Alot	SC	Lila Devi Choudhary	Template:Full party name with color
Manasa	None	Surajbhai Tugnawat	Template:Full party name with color
Garoth	None	Kasturchand Chaudhary	Template:Full party name with color
Suwasara	SC	Ramgopal Bhartiya	Template:Full party name with color
Sitamau	None	Dhansukhlal Bhachawat	Template:Full party name with color
Mandsaur	None	Shyam Sunder Patidar	Template:Full party name with color
Neemuch	None	Raghunandan Prasad	Template:Full party name with color
Jawad	None	Kanhiyalal Nagauri	Template:Full party name with color