Constituency
67. Kotma
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-KOTMA
INC 56.8%won by 26.2%SOC 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 26.2%.
- New challengerSOC (SOC) finished second with 30.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.3% of the vote between them, up from 47.8% — 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
7,065
Margin
1,853
26.23%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1GIRJA KUMARIIndian National Congress · INC4,01156.8%
- 2GAJROOP SINGHSOC · SOC2,15830.5%
- 3PHOOL KUNWARJS · JS89612.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOC swing
- +1.8%
- INC share
- 24.5% → 56.8%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —