Constituency
191. Sohagpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1957
MP-SOHAGPUR
INC 71.4%won by 60.0%IND 11.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 36.0% to 60.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.1% — 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
20,224
Margin
12,131
59.98%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHAMBHU NATHIndian National Congress · INC14,44871.4%
- 2PREMIndependent · IND2,31711.5%
- 3DADAN RAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,9699.7%
- 4KASHI NATHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,4907.4%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +18.7%
- INC share
- 51.6% → 71.4%
- IND share
- 10.3% → 11.5%
- Turnout
- — → —