Constituency
87. Damoh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1957
MP-DAMOH
INC 71.3%won by 58.2%CPI 13.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.7% to 58.2%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 13.1% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.4% of the vote between them, up from 74.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
20,390
Margin
11,858
58.16%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1HARISHCHANDRAIndian National Congress · INC14,53371.3%
- 2P .K. M. L. (PRASANNKUMAR)Communist Party of India · CPI2,67513.1%
- 3GOPALSCF · SCF2,12710.4%
- 4JEEWANLALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0555.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +15.4%
- INC share
- 42.8% → 71.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 13.1%
- Turnout
- — → —