Constituency
156. Balaghat
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-BALAGHAT
INC 48.3%won by 21.7%PSP 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.5% to 21.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.0% of the vote between them, up from 66.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
23,482
Margin
5,085
21.65%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1NANDKISHORE JAISRAJIndian National Congress · INC11,34848.3%
- 2SHEORAM KISANPraja Socialist Party · PSP6,26326.7%
- 3RAMPRASAD SALIKRAIMCommunist Party of India · CPI3,90416.6%
- 4RAMPRASAD NAMDEOIndependent · IND1,9678.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −14.7%
- INC share
- 49.6% → 48.3%
- PSP share
- 13.3% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —