Constituency
92. Akaltara
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-AKALTARA
INC 44.5%won by 24.4%JS 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 45.0% to 24.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 20.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.7% between them, down from 73.8% — 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
23,605
Margin
5,751
24.36%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1THAKUR BHUWAN BHASKAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,50944.5%
- 2HEM LALJS · JS4,75820.2%
- 3GAJANAND PRASADIndependent · IND4,60619.5%
- 4GOVIND RAMRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP2,85812.1%
- 5MAL RAMIndependent · IND8743.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −35.1%
- INC share
- 59.4% → 44.5%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —