Constituency
163. Niwas
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-NIWAS
INC 35.0%won by 9.6%PSP 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 45.5% to 9.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 37.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.4% 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
9,057
Margin
865
9.55%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHAHJUIndian National Congress · INC3,16735.0%
- 2DEVI SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,30225.4%
- 3BALA SINGHIndependent · IND1,89120.9%
- 4SOHBARAMRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP1,69718.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −35.9%
- INC share
- 72.7% → 35.0%
- PSP share
- 27.3% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —