Constituency
115. Mahasamund
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-MAHASAMUND
PSP 37.4%won by 6.3%INC 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 6.3%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 14.6% to 37.4% of the vote here (+22.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.5% 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
17,043
Margin
1,067
6.26%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PSP- 1PARANPraja Socialist Party · PSP6,37337.4%
- 2BAJIRAOIndian National Congress · INC5,30631.1%
- 3LALA RAMJS · JS2,68715.8%
- 4DEVI DASREP · REP2,31313.6%
- 5MEHTARIndependent · IND3642.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +19.5%
- PSP share
- 14.6% → 37.4%
- INC share
- 27.8% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- — → —