Constituency
95. Katghora
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-KATGHORA
INC 74.0%won by 48.0%JS 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.0% to 48.0%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 50.6% — 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
7,986
Margin
3,832
47.98%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1RUDRASARAN PRATAP SINGHIndian National Congress · INC5,90974.0%
- 2SHYAM LALJS · JS2,07726.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- +21.2%
- INC share
- 26.8% → 74.0%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —