Constituency
54. Gurh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-GURH
INC 38.2%won by 16.8%SOC 21.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 16.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 21.0% to 38.2% of the vote here (+17.2%).
- New challengerSOC (SOC) finished second with 21.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 59.5% of the vote between them, up from 45.8% — 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
24,818
Margin
4,173
16.81%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1VRAJRAJ SINGHIndian National Congress · INC9,47238.2%
- 2SHIV KUMARSOC · SOC5,29921.4%
- 3SHIVNATH PRASADJS · JS4,23817.1%
- 4MOHAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,4279.8%
- 5RAMSEWAKIndependent · IND1,3785.6%
- 6INDRADEO SINGHIndependent · IND1,2134.9%
- 7VEERBHADRAPraja Socialist Party · PSP7913.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOC swing
- −4.2%
- INC share
- 21.0% → 38.2%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 21.4%
- Turnout
- — → —