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 Gandhi, the Requisitionists formed the respective governments, representing a defeat for the Syndicate Congress.
Summary of Legislative Assembly elections Date(s)StateGovernment before electionChief Minister before electionGovernment after electionChief Minister after electionMaps 5 March 1972 Himachal Pradesh Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (R) Yashwant Singh Parmar BiharPresident's Rule Indian National Congress (R) Kedar Pandey Maharashtra Indian National Congress (R) Vasantrao Naik Indian National Congress (R) Vasantrao Naik 5 and 8 March 1972 GujaratPresident's Rule Indian National Congress (R) Ghanshyam Oza 6 March 1972 Rajasthan Indian National Congress (R) Barkatullah Khan Indian National Congress (R) Barkatullah Khan ManipurPresident's Rule Mohammed Alimuddin 7 March 1972 Assam Mahendra Mohan Choudhry Indian National Congress (R) Sarat Chandra Singha 8 March 1972 Madhya Pradesh Shyama Charan Shukla Prakash Chandra Sethi 9 March 1972 MeghalayaNew state was created Williamson A. Sangma 11 March 1972West BengalPresident's Rule Indian National Congress (R) Siddhartha Shankar Ray Haryana Bansi Lal Indian National Congress (R) Bansi Lal TripuraPresident's Rule Indian National Congress (R) Sukhamoy Sen Gupta 15 March 1972 Andhra Pradesh Indian National Congress (R) Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Indian National Congress (R) P. V. Narasimha Rao 8 April 1972 MizoramNew state was created Independent C. Chhunga MysorePresident's Rule Indian National Congress (R) D. Devaraj Urs PunjabPresident's Rule Indian National Congress (R) Zail Singh Goa, Daman and Diu Dayanand Bandodkar Dayanand Bandodkar 17 June 1972Jammu and Kashmir Indian National Congress (R) Syed Mir Qasim Indian National Congress (R) Syed Mir Qasim
Legislative Assembly elections Assam
Andhra Pradesh
Bihar
Goa, Daman & Diu
|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats contested !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change
|align="left"|Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party||23||18||116,855||38.30%|| 2
|align="left"|United Goans Party (Superia Group)||26||10||99,156||32.50%|| 2
|align="left"|Indian National Congress||19||1||41,612||13.64%|| 1
|align="left"|Independents||36||1||28,874||9.64%|| 1
|align="left"|Total||138||30||305,077||
Gujarat #PartySeats ContestedSeats WonForfeited DepositsPopular VoteVoting PercentageVote % In Seats Contested1 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%
MenWomenTotalNO. OF ELECTORS6370260613712412507384Votes402023432469597267193Percentage63.11%52.91%58.10%Valid votes6924709Invalid votes342484NO. OF POLLING STATIONS17994AVERAGE NO. OF ELECTORS PER POLLING STATION695MenWomenTotalNO. OF CONTESTANTS85221873ELECTED1671168FORFEITED DEPOSITS000
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Madhya Pradesh # Party SeatsContested Seatswon Seats Changed %Votes 1 Indian National Congress 289 220 53 47.93% 1 Bharatiya Jana Sangh 260 48 30 28.64% 3 Samyukta Socialist Party/Socialist Party 172 7 N/A 6.24% 4 Communist Party of India 30 3 2 1.02% 7 Independent 296 18 4 14.73% Total 296
Maharashtra
!colspan=10| |- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change in vote %
|align="left"|Indian National Congress||271||222|| 19||8,535,832||56.36%|| 9.33%
|align="left"|Peasants and Workers Party of India||58||7|| 12||856,986||5.66%|| 2.14%
|align="left"|Bharatiya Jana Sangh||122||5|| 1||947,266||6.25%|| 1.92%
|align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party/Socialist Party||52||3|| 1||693,797||4.58%|| 0.03%
|align="left"|Republican Party of India||118||2|| 3||570,533||3.77%|| 2.89%
|align="left"|Communist Party of India||44||2|| 8||412,857||2.73%|| 2.14%
|align="left"|All India Forward Bloc||26||2|| 2||363,547||2.40%|| 2.40% (New Party)
|align="left"|Shiv Sena||26||1|| 1||279,210||1.84%|| 1.84% (New Party)
|align="left"|Communist Party of India (Marxist)||20||1||||117,134||0.77%|| 0.31%
|align="left"|Bharatiya Kranti Dal||2||1|| 1||31,508||0.21%|| 0.21% (New Party)
|align="left"|Indian Union Muslim League||1||1|| 1||27,138||0.18%|| 0.18% (New Party)
| align="left"|Republican Party of India (Khobragade) | 56 | 0 | (New Party) | 202,935 | 1.34% | 1.34% (New Party)
| align="left"|Indian National Congress (Organisation) | 49 | 0 | (Split in INC) | 162,433 | 1.07% | (Split in INC)
| 5 | 0 | | 14,269 | 0.09% | 1.03%
|align="left"|Independents||343||23|| 7||1,920,667||12.68%|| 1.89% |-style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | |align="left"|Total||1196||270||||15,146,171||60.63%|| 4.21%
Manipur
Meghalaya PartyVotes%SeatsAll Party Hill Leaders Conference (AHL)73,85135.6732 Indian National Congress (INC) 20,474 9.89 9Communist Party of India (CPI)1,1820.570Independents (IND) 111,506 53.86 19 Total 207,013 100.00 60Source: Election Commission of India
Mizoram
Mysore
!colspan=10| |- 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" |Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote share !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Net change |-style="background: #90EE90;" | |align="left"|Indian National Congress (Requisitionists)||212||165|| 39||4,698,824||52.17%|| 3.74%
|align="left"|Indian National Congress (Organisation)||176||24||||2,361,308||26.22%|| 26.22%
|align="left"|Communist Party of India||4||3||||88,978||0.99%||
|align="left"|Samyukta Socialist Party||29||3|| 3||152,556||1.69%|| 0.78%
|align="left"|Janata Paksha Party||2||1||||14,390||0.16%||
|align="left"|Independents||||20|| 21||1,159,383||12.87%|| |- |align="left" colspan=2|Total||||216||||||||
Punjab
Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly Election 1972PartySeats contestedSeats wonChange in seatsPopular vote%Indian National Congress8966 2820,83,39042.84Shiromani Akali Dal7224 1913,44,43727.64Communist Party of India1310 63,16,7226.51Communist Party of India (Marxist)171 11,58,3093.26Independents2053 15,97,91712.29Others720 -3,62,7837.47Total46810448,63,558
Rajasthan
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
West Bengal
References
External links
Election Commission of India