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124. Kanker

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962

MP-KANKER

IND 61.0%won by 46.1%INC 14.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 46.1%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 6.4% to 61.0% of the vote here (+54.7%).
  • Safe seatIndependent won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
22,317
Margin
10,298
46.14%

Candidates

6 contested · winner IND
  1. 1BHANUPRATAP DEOIndependent · IND13,62361.0%
  2. 2BRINDWAN BIHARILALIndian National Congress · INC3,32514.9%
  3. 3BRIJ LALIndependent · IND2,0949.4%
  4. 4BRIJ BHUSHAN PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,4066.3%
  5. 5PRAVIRACHANDRA BHANJ DEOIndependent · IND1,1975.4%
  6. 6RAM NATHIndependent · IND6723.0%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–INC swing
+77.9%
IND share
6.4% → 61.0%
INC share
38.2% → 14.9%
Turnout
— → —
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