Constituency
76. Ambikapur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-AMBIKAPUR
IND 25.2%won by 2.3%JS 22.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 2.3%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 12.7% to 25.2% of the vote here (+12.5%).
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 22.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 48.1% of the vote between them, up from 36.8% — 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
18,354
Margin
420
2.29%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1AMRESH PRASADIndependent · IND4,62125.2%
- 2REWATIRAMANJS · JS4,20122.9%
- 3BRAJBHUSHANIndian National Congress · INC3,31418.1%
- 4CHAKRADHARI SINGHIndependent · IND2,24512.2%
- 5MURARI LALPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,08311.3%
- 6BANSRUPRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP1,89010.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–JS swing
- −10.4%
- IND share
- 12.7% → 25.2%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 22.9%
- Turnout
- — → —