Constituency
167. Jabalpur I I I
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-JABALPUR-I-I-I
INC 60.7%won by 44.0%JS 16.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 41.6% to 44.0%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 16.8% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 84.3% — 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
24,190
Margin
10,634
43.96%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1JAGMOHAN DASIndian National Congress · INC14,69460.7%
- 2NARAIAN DASJS · JS4,06016.8%
- 3LAXMINARAIN MEHROTRACommunist Party of India · CPI3,23913.4%
- 4PURAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,1979.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −19.0%
- INC share
- 62.9% → 60.7%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 16.8%
- Turnout
- — → —