Constituency
45. Amarpatan
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-AMARPATAN
INC 36.6%won by 1.1%JS 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.7% to 36.6% of the vote here (+12.9%).
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 35.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.2% of the vote between them, up from 48.9% — 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
21,448
Margin
234
1.09%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1GULSHER AHMADIndian National Congress · INC7,85636.6%
- 2RAM HITJS · JS7,62235.5%
- 3INDRA JIT SINGHSOC · SOC3,06614.3%
- 4GAYA PRASADRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP1,2946.0%
- 5PREM LALPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,1725.5%
- 6MOTI LALIndependent · IND4382.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JS swing
- −22.6%
- INC share
- 23.7% → 36.6%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- — → —