Constituency
144. Balod
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1957
MP-BALOD
INC 59.9%won by 19.7%PSP 40.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 19.7%.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 40.1% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 58.8% — 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
24,370
Margin
4,808
19.73%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1LESHOLAL GOMASTAIndian National Congress · INC14,58959.9%
- 2INDRAMANSINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP9,78140.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −12.1%
- INC share
- 31.9% → 59.9%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 40.1%
- Turnout
- — → —