Constituency
20. Seondha
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-SEONDHA
INC 49.4%won by 17.5%IND 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 17.0% to 17.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from HMS (HMS) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.3% between them, down from 90.9% — 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
23,688
Margin
4,134
17.45%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KAMTA PRASADIndian National Congress · INC11,69249.4%
- 2RAM CHARAN LALIndependent · IND7,55831.9%
- 3LALU RAMIndependent · IND2,1879.2%
- 4VISHNU DAYALIndependent · IND7383.1%
- 5MALOJI RAOSwatantra Party · SWA7013.0%
- 6UDAI BHAN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP6152.6%
- 7SHIYA SHARANIndependent · IND1970.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −32.2%
- INC share
- 54.0% → 49.4%
- IND share
- 4.3% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- — → —