Constituency
140. Durg City
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-DURG-CITY
INC 41.1%won by 4.4%PSP 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.8% between them, down from 95.4% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
41,568
Margin
1,812
4.36%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DHAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC17,06941.1%
- 2WASUDEO CHANDRAKARPraja Socialist Party · PSP15,25736.7%
- 3WAMAN WASUDEO PATANKARJS · JS5,67813.7%
- 4JANKI PRASADIndependent · IND2,1415.2%
- 5NARENDRANATH DWIVEDIIndependent · IND8712.1%
- 6KRISHNALAL KAPOORIndependent · IND5521.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- +17.5%
- INC share
- 41.1% → 41.1%
- PSP share
- 54.3% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —