The 1972 Mysore State Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Mysore (currently Karnataka) to elect 216 members to the

Mysore Legislative Assembly The Karnataka Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses. The two houses ar ...

. Indian National Congress (Requisitionists) allied with

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

D. Devaraj Urs Devaraj Devaraj Urs (20 August 1915 – 6 June 1982) was an Indian politician who served two terms as the eighth Chief Minister of Karnataka (1972–77, 1978–80), a state in southern India. He is also the longest serving List of chief minist ...

of INC(R) and M. S. Krishnan of CPI came together and forged a pre-pol alliance.

Results

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!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",

, , 4, , 3, , , , 88,978, , 0.99%, , , - , , align="left",

Samyukta Socialist Party Samyukta Socialist Party (; SSP), was a political party in India from 1964 to 1972. SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in 1964. In 1972, SSP was reunited with PSP, forming the Socialist Party. The General Secret ...

, , 29, , 3, , 3, , 152,556, , 1.69%, , 0.78% , - , , align="left",

Janata Paksha Party Janata (''janatā''), is a Hindi word for "the populace"; or "the people". Following the first Janata coalition in the 1970s between the Lok Dal, the Congress (O) and the Socialist Party, it has become part of the name of a number of federal - an ...

, , 2, , 1, , , , 14,390, , 0.16%, , , - , , align="left", Independents, , , , 20, , 21, , 1,159,383, , 12.87%, , , - , align="left" colspan=2, Total, , , , 216, , , , , , , , , -

Elected members

References

{{Karnataka elections Mysore State Assembly elections in Karnataka Government of Mysore