Template:Infobox electionThe 1972 Mysore State Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Mysore (currently Karnataka) to elect 216 members to the Mysore Legislative Assembly.[1]
Results
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!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
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|align="left"|Indian National Congress||212||165||Template:Increase 39||4,698,824||52.17%||Template:Increase 3.74
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|align="left"|Indian National Congress (Organisation)||176||24||||2,361,308||26.22%||
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|align="left"|Communist Party of India||4||3||||88,978||0.99%||
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|align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||29||3||Template:Decrease 3||152,556||1.69%|| Template:Decrease 0.78
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|align="left"|Janata Paksha Party||2||1||||14,390||0.16%||
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|align="left"|Independents||||20||Template:Decrease 21||1,159,383||12.87%||
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|align="left"|'Total||||216||||'||||
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