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Registered | 18,394,846 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 53.49% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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] Govind Narayan Singh was elected to the assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate but 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]
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]
Source: [5]
# | Party | Seats Contested | Seats won | Seats Changed | % Votes | ||||
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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 |
Govind Narayan Singh, was an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from 30 July 1967 to 12 March 1969. He was also Governor of Bihar state from 26 February 1988 to 24 January 1989.
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