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Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly election, 1972 was held in
India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...
n Union territory of
Goa, Daman and Diu Goa, Daman and Diu (, ) was a union territory of the Republic of India established in 1961 following the annexation of Portuguese India, with Maj Gen K P Candeth as its first Military Governor. The Goa portion of the territory was granted ful ...
in 1972, to elect 30 members to the Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly.


Results

, - align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable", !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center, Political Party
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Seats contested
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Seats won
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Number of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , % of Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Seat change
, - , , align="left",
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP) was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961. In the first elections held after the Annexation of Goa by India, it ascended to power in December 1963 and stayed in power ...
, , 23, , 18, , 116,855, , 38.30%, , 2 , - , , align="left", United Goans Party (Superia Group), , 26, , 10, , 99,156, , 32.50%, , 2 , - , , align="left",
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...
, , 19, , 1, , 41,612, , 13.64%, , 1 , - , , align="left", Independents, , 36, , 1, , 28,874, , 9.64%, , 1 , - , , align="left", Total, , 138, , 30, , 305,077, , , -


Winning candidates


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election, 1972
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
1972 State Assembly elections in India 1970s in Goa, Daman and Diu
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...