Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly election, 1972 was held in

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

Union territory Among the states and union territories of India, a Union Territory (UT) is a region that is directly governed by the Government of India, central government of India, as opposed to the states, which have their own State governments of India, s ...

Goa, Daman and Diu Goa, Daman and Diu (, ) was a union territory of the Republic of India established in 1961 following the Annexation of Goa, liberation of Portuguese India, with Maj Gen K P Candeth as its first governor. The Goa portion of the territory was gran ...

in 1972, to elect 30 members to the Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly.

Results

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Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP) is a political party in India. It was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961. The party has its base amongst non-Brahmin Hindu migrants from Maharashtra and their desce ...

, , 23, , 18, , 116,855, , 38.30%, , 2 , - , , align="left", United Goans Party (Sequeira Group), , 26, , 10, , 99,156, , 32.50%, , 2 , - , , align="left",

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

, , 19, , 1, , 41,612, , 13.64%, , 1 , - , , align="left", Independents, , 36, , 1, , 28,874, , 9.64%, , 1 , - , colspan=2 align="left", Total, , 138, , 30, , 305,077, , , -

Results by constituency

By Elections

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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, ...

1972 State Assembly elections in India 1970s in Goa, Daman and Diu