Constituency
184. Sagar
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-SAGAR
INC 37.3%won by 14.3%JS 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.0% to 14.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 23.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.3% between them, down from 75.9% — 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
28,411
Margin
4,052
14.26%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1HAJI MOHANMMAD SHAFI SHEIKH SUBHARATIIndian National Congress · INC10,59037.3%
- 2RAM SHANKER SHANKER NATHJS · JS6,53823.0%
- 3KOMALCHAND PANNA LALCommunist Party of India · CPI4,43615.6%
- 4LAXMI NARAYAN RADHE LALIndependent · IND3,74613.2%
- 5SHANTA NARMADA PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,3524.8%
- 6BHAGWANDAS PYARELALHMS · HMS6822.4%
- 7KHEMCHAND HARGOVINDIndependent · IND5582.0%
- 8KHEMCHAND BHAGWANDASIndependent · IND2961.0%
- 9KUNDAN LAL KAMTA PRASADIndependent · IND2130.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −28.7%
- INC share
- 42.9% → 37.3%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —