Constituency
159. Basna
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1957
MP-BASNA
IND 56.5%won by 36.9%PSP 19.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 36.9%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 23.8% to 56.5% of the vote here (+32.7%).
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 19.6% — it did not contest here in 1951.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.1% between them, down from 86.6% — the field split more ways.
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
19,113
Margin
7,060
36.94%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1RAJKUMAR BIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGHIndependent · IND10,80356.5%
- 2NIRANJAN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,74319.6%
- 3DANI ABDUL HAMIDIndian National Congress · INC3,37517.7%
- 4VISHNOO SHARANIndependent · IND1,1926.2%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–PSP swing
- +13.1%
- IND share
- 23.8% → 56.5%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 19.6%
- Turnout
- — → —