1972 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election
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all 75 seats in Legislative Assembly 38 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 60.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections for the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir were held over January 1972.[1] Syed Mir Qasim was appointed Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. For the first time, women entered the Jammu and Kashmir assembly in the 1972 assembly elections. That year, ten women filed their nominations, six of them contested and four won.[2] This made the percentage of women legislators 5.33% in the Jammu Kashmir assembly.
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