Constituency
136. Balod
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-BALOD
INC 37.4%won by 5.4%PSP 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.7% to 5.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.4% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
25,451
Margin
1,387
5.45%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KESHOLAL GOMASTAIndian National Congress · INC9,52537.4%
- 2INDRAJIT SAHUPraja Socialist Party · PSP8,13832.0%
- 3BAHORAN SINGHJS · JS5,22420.5%
- 4NARESHCommunist Party of India · CPI2,56410.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −14.3%
- INC share
- 59.9% → 37.4%
- PSP share
- 40.1% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —