Constituency
162. Mehedwani
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-MEHEDWANI
INC 39.7%won by 1.1%PSP 38.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.0% to 1.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.3% 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
13,442
Margin
148
1.10%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1ROOP SINGHIndian National Congress · INC5,33939.7%
- 2LIKHARIPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,19138.6%
- 3PARSU SINGHRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP2,47018.4%
- 4HARICHANRANIndependent · IND4423.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −16.9%
- INC share
- 59.0% → 39.7%
- PSP share
- 41.0% → 38.6%
- Turnout
- — → —