Constituency
118. Raipur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-RAIPUR
INC 48.9%won by 21.6%PSP 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.0% to 21.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.2% between them, down from 88.6% — 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
42,124
Margin
9,102
21.61%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1SHARDA CHARAN TIWARIIndian National Congress · INC20,59748.9%
- 2THAKUR RAMKRISHNA SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP11,49527.3%
- 3SUDHIR KUMARCommunist Party of India · CPI5,53613.1%
- 4NARSINGH PRASADJS · JS2,3775.6%
- 5AZIZUDDINIndependent · IND8772.1%
- 6GOVERDHAN DAS BAGDIIndependent · IND4611.1%
- 7BHOLABHAIFB · FB4541.1%
- 8RAMADHARIndependent · IND2700.6%
- 9HARIDASIndependent · IND570.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- +4.6%
- INC share
- 52.8% → 48.9%
- PSP share
- 35.8% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —