1972 elections in India

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.

Date(s)	State	Government before election		Chief Minister before election		Chief Minister after election
5 March 1972	Himachal Pradesh		Indian National Congress	Indian National Congress	Indian National Congress (R)	Yashwant Singh Parmar
	Bihar		President'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	Gujarat		President's Rule		Indian National Congress (R)	Ghanshyam Oza
6 March 1972	Rajasthan		Indian National Congress (R)	Barkatullah Khan	Indian National Congress (R)	Barkatullah Khan
6 March 1972	Manipur		President's Rule		Manipur People's Party	Mohammed Alimuddin
7 March 1972	Assam		Indian National Congress	Mahendra Mohan Choudhry	Indian National Congress (R)	Sarat Chandra Singha
8 March 1972	Madhya Pradesh		Indian National Congress	Shyama Charan Shukla	Indian National Congress	Prakash Chandra Sethi
9 March 1972	Meghalaya	New state was created			All Party Hill Leaders Conference	Williamson A. Sangma
11 March 1972	West Bengal		President's Rule		Indian National Congress (R)	Siddhartha Shankar Ray
	Haryana		Indian National Congress	Bansi Lal	Indian National Congress (R)	Bansi Lal
	Tripura		President'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	Mizoram	New state was created			Independent	C. Chhunga
	Mysore		President's Rule		Indian National Congress (R)	D. Devaraj Urs
	Punjab		President's Rule		Indian National Congress (R)	Zail Singh
	Goa, Daman and Diu		Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	Dayanand Bandodkar	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	Dayanand Bandodkar
17 June 1972	Jammu and Kashmir		Indian National Congress (R)	Syed Mir Qasim	Indian National Congress (R)	Syed Mir Qasim


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	1,976,209	53.20	95	+22
	Samyukta Socialist Party	214,342	5.77	4	0
	Communist Party of India	209,550	5.64	3	–4
	Plain Tribals Council of Assam	62,108	1.67	1	New
	Swatantra Party	21,663	0.58	1	–2
	Others	125,928	3.39	0	0
	Independents	1,104,977	29.75	10	–16
Total		3,714,777	100.00	114	+9

Valid votes		3,714,777	96.47
Invalid/blank votes		136,122	3.53
Total votes		3,850,899	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		6,328,537	60.85
Source: ECI^[1]


Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	7,474,255	52.29	6.87%	219	54
	Communist Party of India	854,742	5.98	1.80%	7	4
	Swatantra Party	282,949	1.98	7.86%	2	27
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	454,038	3.18	4.43%	1	5
	Sampurna Telangana Praja Samithi	237,934	1.66	new party	1	new party
	Bharatiya Jana Sangh	266,192	1.86	0.25%	0	3
	Indian National Congress (Organisation)	45,303	0.32	new party	0	new party
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	36,466	0.26	new party	0	new party
	Republican Party of India (Khobragade)	21,357	0.15	new party	0	new party
	Samyukta Socialist Party	9,952	0.07	0.29%	0
	Minorities League	3,582	0.03	new party	0	new party
	Backward Classes Mahasabha	910	0.01	new party	0	new party
	Independents	4,604,943	32.22	5.81%	57	11
Total		14,292,623	100.00	–	287

Valid votes		14,292,623	97.27
Invalid/blank votes		400,407	2.73
Total votes		14,693,030	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		24,607,903	59.71


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Indian National Congress	5,688,002	33.12	167
	Samyukta Socialist Party/Socialist Party	2,814,799	16.39	33
	Indian National Congress (O)	2,544,841	14.82	30
	Bharatiya Jan Sangh	2,007,314	11.69	25
	Communist Party of India	1,192,746	6.94	35
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	276,649	1.61	–
	Hindustani Shoshit Dal	219,341	1.28	3
	Swatantra Party	121,238	0.71	1
	All India Jharkhand Party	149,754	0.87	3
	Jharkhand	90,717	0.53	1
	Bihar Prant Hul Jharkhand	90,234	0.53	2
	Socialist Unity Centre of India	47,732	0.28	–
	Progressive Hull Jharkhand Party (Shibu Group)	32,631	0.19	1
	All India Forward Bloc	20,525	0.12	–
	Bharatiya Kranti Dal	5,609	0.03	–
	Indian Union Muslim League	5,317	0.03	–
	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)	4,677	0.03	–
	Backward Classes Party of India	4,386	0.03	–
	All India Labour Party	3,859	0.02	–
	Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)	2,968	0.02	–
	Chota Nagpur Bhumi Rakshak Party	1,274	0.01	–
	Republican Party of India	907	0.01	–
	Independent	1,849,613	10.77	17
Total		17,175,133	100.00	318

Valid votes		17,175,133	98.09
Invalid/blank votes		333,560	1.91
Total votes		17,508,693	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		33,164,286	52.79
Source:

Political Party	Seats contested	Seats won	Number of Votes	% of Votes	Seat change
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	23	18	116,855	38.30%	2
United Goans Party (Superia Group)	26	10	99,156	32.50%	2
Indian National Congress	19	1	41,612	13.64%	1
Independents	36	1	28,874	9.64%	1
Total	138	30	305,077

1972 elections in India

Legislative Assembly elections

Assam

Andhra Pradesh

Bihar

Goa, Daman & Diu

Gujarat

Haryana

Himachal Pradesh

Jammu and Kashmir

Madhya Pradesh

Maharashtra

Manipur

Meghalaya

Mizoram

Mysore

Punjab

Rajasthan

Tripura

West Bengal

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	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


#	Party	Seats Contested	Seats won	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


Political Party	No. of candidates	No. of elected	Seat change	Number of Votes	% of Votes	Change in vote %
Indian National Congress 222 / 270 (82%)	271	222	19	8,535,832	56.36%	9.33%
Peasants and Workers Party of India 7 / 270 (3%)	58	7	12	856,986	5.66%	2.14%
Bharatiya Jana Sangh 5 / 270 (2%)	122	5	1	947,266	6.25%	1.92%
Samyukta Socialist Party/Socialist Party 3 / 270 (1%)	52	3	1	693,797	4.58%	0.03%
Republican Party of India 2 / 270 (0.7%)	118	2	3	570,533	3.77%	2.89%
Communist Party of India 2 / 270 (0.7%)	44	2	8	412,857	2.73%	2.14%
All India Forward Bloc 2 / 270 (0.7%)	26	2	2	363,547	2.40%	2.40% (New Party)
Shiv Sena 1 / 270 (0.4%)	26	1	1	279,210	1.84%	1.84% (New Party)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1 / 270 (0.4%)	20	1		117,134	0.77%	0.31%
Bharatiya Kranti Dal 1 / 270 (0.4%)	2	1	1	31,508	0.21%	0.21% (New Party)
Indian Union Muslim League 1 / 270 (0.4%)	1	1	1	27,138	0.18%	0.18% (New Party)
Republican Party of India (Khobragade)	56	0	(New Party)	202,935	1.34%	1.34% (New Party)
Indian National Congress (Organisation)	49	0	(Split in INC)	162,433	1.07%	(Split in INC)
Swatantra Party	5	0		14,269	0.09%	1.03%
Independents 23 / 270 (9%)	343	23	7	1,920,667	12.68%	1.89%
Total	1196	270		15,146,171	60.63%	4.21%

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Indian National Congress	34,421	30.91	6
	Samyukta Socialist Party	1,713	1.54	0
	Independents	75,224	67.55	24
Total		111,358	100.00	30

Valid votes		111,358	97.35
Invalid/blank votes		3,028	2.65
Total votes		114,386	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		156,901	72.90
Source: ECI^[7]


	Political Party	Contestants	Seats won	Seat change	Votes	Vote share	Net change
	Indian National Congress (Requisitionists)	212	165	39	4,698,824	52.17%	3.74%
	Indian National Congress (Organisation)	176	24		2,361,308	26.22%	26.22%
	Communist Party of India	4	3		88,978	0.99%
	Samyukta Socialist Party	29	3	3	152,556	1.69%	0.78%
	Janata Paksha Party	2	1		14,390	0.16%
	Independents		20	21	1,159,383	12.87%
Total			216

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Indian National Congress	6,543,251	49.08	216	–
	Communist Party of India	1,110,579	8.33	35	–
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	3,659,808	27.45	14	–
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	284,643	2.14	3	–
	Indian National Congress (Organisation)	196,044	1.47	2	–
	All India Gorkha League	35,802	0.27	2	–
	Socialist Unity Centre	238,276	1.79	1	–
	Indian Union Muslim League	121,208	0.91	1	–
	Workers Party of India	63,673	0.48	1	–
	Others	605,677	4.54	0	0
	Independents	472,556	3.54	5	–
Total		13,331,517	100.00	280	0

Valid votes		13,331,517	97.18
Invalid/blank votes		387,018	2.82
Total votes		13,718,535	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		22,554,545	60.82
Source: ECI^[10]

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See also: Elections in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Chandigarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal


#	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%