1972 elections in India

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The 1972 elections in India were a set of sub-national elections held from March to June 1972 across several Indian states and territories, including Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Mysore, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tripura, West Bengal, Goa, Daman and Diu, and Jammu and Kashmir. In most of these contests the faction of the formerly-united Indian National Congress associated with Indira Ghandi, the Requisitionists formed the respective governments, representing a defeat for the Syndicate Congress.

Summary of Legislative Assembly elections

Date(s)	State	Government before election		Chief Minister before election	Government after election		Chief Minister after election	Maps
5 March 1972	Himachal Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Indian National Congress	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Yashwant Singh Parmar
	Bihar		President's Rule		Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Kedar Pandey
	Maharashtra	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Vasantrao Naik	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Vasantrao Naik
5 and 8 March 1972	Gujarat		President's Rule		Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Ghanshyam Oza
6 March 1972	Rajasthan	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Barkatullah Khan	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Barkatullah Khan
	Manipur		President's Rule		Template:Full party name with color	Mohammed Alimuddin
7 March 1972	Assam	Template:Full party name with color	Mahendra Mohan Choudhry	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Sarat Chandra Singha
8 March 1972	Madhya Pradesh	Template:Full party name with color	Shyama Charan Shukla	Template:Full party name with color	Prakash Chandra Sethi
9 March 1972	Meghalaya	New state was created			Template:Full party name with color	Williamson A. Sangma
11 March 1972	West Bengal		President's Rule		Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
	Haryana	Template:Full party name with color	Bansi Lal	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Bansi Lal
	Tripura		President's Rule		Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Sukhamoy Sen Gupta
15 March 1972	Andhra Pradesh	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Kasu Brahmananda Reddy	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	P. V. Narasimha Rao
8 April 1972	Mizoram	New state was created			Template:Party color cell	Independent	C. Chhunga
	Mysore		President's Rule		Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	D. Devaraj Urs
	Punjab		President's Rule		Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Zail Singh
	Goa, Daman and Diu	Template:Full party name with color	Dayanand Bandodkar	Template:Full party name with color	Dayanand Bandodkar
17 June 1972	Jammu and Kashmir	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Syed Mir Qasim	Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress (R)	Syed Mir Qasim

Legislative Assembly elections

Goa, Daman & Diu

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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes
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|- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party||23||18||116,855||38.30%||Template:Increase 2 |- | |align="left"|United Goans Party (Superia Group)||26||10||99,156||32.50%||Template:Decrease 2 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress||19||1||41,612||13.64%||Template:Increase 1 |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||36||1||28,874||9.64%||Template:Decrease 1 |- | |align="left"|Total||138||30||305,077|| |- |}

Gujarat

#	Party	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Forfeited Deposits	Popular Vote	Voting Percentage	Vote % In Seats Contested
1	BJS	100	3	69	643032	9.29%	15.03%
2	CPI	11	1	10	32439	0.47%	7.00%
3	CPM	4	0	4	15500	0.22%	9.57%
4	INC	168	140	1	3527035	50.93%	50.93%
5	NCO	138	16	29	1626736	23.49%	28.95%
6	SOP	15	0	12	50009	0.72%	9.11%
7	SWA	47	0	42	123589	1.78%	6.32%
8	RSP	1	0	0	8649	0.12%	22.33%
9	HMS	1	0	1	136	0.00%	0.35%
10	IND	337	8	299	897584	12.96%	15.54%

	Men	Women	Total
NO. OF ELECTORS	6370260	6137124	12507384
Votes	4020234	3246959	7267193
Percentage	63.11%	52.91%	58.10%
Valid votes	6924709
Invalid votes	342484
NO. OF POLLING STATIONS	17994
AVERAGE NO. OF ELECTORS PER POLLING STATION	695
	Men	Women	Total
NO. OF CONTESTANTS	852	21	873
ELECTED	167	1	168
FORFEITED DEPOSITS	0	0	0

Madhya Pradesh

#	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

Maharashtra

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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change in
vote % |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National CongressTemplate:Composition bar||271||222||Template:Increase 19||8,535,832||56.36%||Template:Increase 9.33% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of IndiaTemplate:Composition bar||58||7||Template:Decrease 12||856,986||5.66%||Template:Decrease 2.14% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Jana SanghTemplate:Composition bar||122||5||Template:Increase 1||947,266||6.25%||Template:Decrease 1.92% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party/Socialist PartyTemplate:Composition bar||52||3||Template:Decrease 1||693,797||4.58%||Template:Decrease 0.03% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Republican Party of IndiaTemplate:Composition bar||118||2||Template:Decrease 3||570,533||3.77%||Template:Decrease 2.89% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of IndiaTemplate:Composition bar||44||2||Template:Decrease 8||412,857||2.73%||Template:Decrease 2.14% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|All India Forward BlocTemplate:Composition bar||26||2||Template:Increase 2||363,547||2.40%||Template:Increase 2.40% (New Party) |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Shiv SenaTemplate:Composition bar||26||1||Template:Increase 1||279,210||1.84%||Template:Increase 1.84% (New Party) |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)Template:Composition bar||20||1||Template:Nochange||117,134||0.77%||Template:Decrease 0.31% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Bharatiya Kranti DalTemplate:Composition bar||2||1||Template:Increase 1||31,508||0.21%||Template:Increase 0.21% (New Party) |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian Union Muslim LeagueTemplate:Composition bar||1||1||Template:Increase 1||27,138||0.18%||Template:Increase 0.18% (New Party) |- | Template:Party color cell | align="left"|Republican Party of India (Khobragade) | 56 | 0 | (New Party) | 202,935 | 1.34% | Template:Up 1.34% (New Party) |- | Template:Party color cell | align="left"|Indian National Congress (Organisation) | 49 | 0 | (Split in INC) | 162,433 | 1.07% | (Split in INC) |- | Template:Full party name with color | 5 | 0 | Template:Steady | 14,269 | 0.09% | Template:Down 1.03% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|IndependentsTemplate:Composition bar||343||23||Template:Increase 7||1,920,667||12.68%||Template:Decrease 1.89% |-style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |align="left"|Total||1196||270||Template:Nochange||15,146,171||60.63%||Template:Decrease 4.21% |- |}

Meghalaya

Party		Votes	%	Seats
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	All Party Hill Leaders Conference (AHL)	73,851	35.67	32
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Indian National Congress (INC)	20,474	9.89	9
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Communist Party of India (CPI)	1,182	0.57	0
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Independents (IND)	111,506	53.86	19Template:Ref label
Total		207,013	100.00	60
Source: Election Commission of India

Mysore

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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won
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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote share
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Net change |-style="background: #90EE90;" | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress (Requisitionists)||212||165||Template:Increase 39||4,698,824||52.17%||Template:Increase 3.74% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Indian National Congress (Organisation)||176||24||||2,361,308||26.22%||Template:Increase 26.22% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Communist Party of India||4||3||||88,978||0.99%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||29||3||Template:Decrease 3||152,556||1.69%|| Template:Decrease 0.78% |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Janata Paksha Party||2||1||||14,390||0.16%|| |- | Template:Party color cell |align="left"|Independents||||20||Template:Decrease 21||1,159,383||12.87%|| |- |align="left" colspan=2|Total||||216|||||||| |- |}

Punjab

Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly Election 1972
	Party	Seats contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Popular vote	%
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Indian National Congress	89	66	Template:Increase 28	20,83,390	42.84
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Shiromani Akali Dal	72	24	Template:Decrease 19	13,44,437	27.64
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Communist Party of India	13	10	Template:Increase 6	3,16,722	6.51
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	17	1	Template:Decrease 1	1,58,309	3.26
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Independents	205	3	Template:Decrease 1	5,97,917	12.29
	Others	72	0	-	3,62,783	7.47
	Total	468	104		48,63,558

Tripura

Party	Seats contested	Seats won	No. of votes	% of votes	1967 Seats
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	3	0	345	0.07%	0
Communist Party of India	11	1	15,226	3.04%	1
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	57	16	189,667	37.82%	2
Indian National Congress	59	41	224,821	44.83%	27
All India Forward Bloc	9	0	5,739	1.14%	-
Tripura Upajati Juba Samiti	10	0	5,883	1.17%	-
Independents	85	2	59,792	11.92%	0
Total	234	60	501,473
Source: ECI

External links

• Election Commission of India