Constituency
186. Ambikapur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1957
MP-AMBIKAPUR
INC 21.2%won by 5.6%INC 15.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.7% to 5.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 38.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 36.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
40,401
Margin
2,276
5.63%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1BRIJBHUSHANIndian National Congress · INC8,56221.2%
- 2KURRAY PRITAM (SC)Indian National Congress · INC6,28615.6%
- 3SATYANARAINIndependent · IND5,12712.7%
- 4JUGESWARIndependent · IND4,74711.7%
- 5DEOSARAN (SC)Independent · IND3,0907.6%
- 6RAGHUNANDAN (SC)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,6166.5%
- 7GANGARAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,3475.8%
- 8RAWARIRAMANBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,1705.4%
- 9SINGH JAGDISH SHARAN (SC)Independent · IND2,1185.2%
- 10ASANRAMIndependent · IND1,4813.7%
- 11RAJDEOPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,1482.8%
- 12SINGH SIYAMBARIndependent · IND7091.8%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 59.8% → 21.2%
- INC share
- 59.8% → 21.2%
- Turnout
- — → —