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| Registered | 20,859,747 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 49.83% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in March 1972. These were the elections to the legislative assembly having 296 seats in undivided Madhya Pradesh. [1] The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Prakash Chandra Sethi was sworn in as the new Chief Minister. [2]
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After the 1962 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, the number of constituencies in Madhya Pradesh were increased to 296, following the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India. [3]
