1967 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Indian state election
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Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in February 1967. These were the elections to the legislative assembly having 296 seats in undivided Madhya Pradesh.[1] While the Congress government won the election handily, later that year Govind Narayan Singh, who had been elected to the assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate, soon rebelled against the incumbent Chief Minister, Dwarka Prasad Mishra and resigned from the Congress party. He formed a new political party, known as the Lok Sewak Dal and became the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh as the leader of a coalition, known as the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal.[2][3]
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21 February 1967
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All 296 assembly constituencies 149 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 18,394,846 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 53.49% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After the previous election in 1962, the number of constituencies in Madhya Pradesh were increased from 288 to 296, following the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India.[4]
Result
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| # | Party | Seats Contested |
Seats won |
Seats Changed |
% Votes | ||||
| 1 | Indian National Congress | 296 | 167 |  25 |
40.60% | ||||
| 2 | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 265 | 78 | 37 |
28.28% | ||||
| 3 | Samyukta Socialist Party | 114 | 10 | 10 |
5.28% | ||||
| 4 | Praja Socialist Party | 110 | 9 |  24 |
4.68% | ||||
| 5 | Swantantra Party | 21 | 7 | 5 |
2.55% | ||||
| 6 | Jan Congress | 33 | 2 | 2 |
1.52% | ||||
| 7 | Communist Party of India | 33 | 1 | 0 | 1.11% | ||||
| 8 | Independent | 296 | 22 | 17 |
14.90% | ||||
| Total | 296 | ||||||||