Constituency
206. Betul
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-BETUL
INC 44.0%won by 4.1%JS 39.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.7% to 4.1%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 39.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.0% of the vote between them, up from 65.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
25,136
Margin
1,029
4.09%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DEEPCHAND GOTHIIndian National Congress · INC11,06944.0%
- 2GOWARDHANDAS HIRALAL KHANDELWALJS · JS10,04039.9%
- 3GOKUL PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,0908.3%
- 4SADARAMREP · REP1,0754.3%
- 5GOPI RAMIndependent · IND8623.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −30.0%
- INC share
- 34.1% → 44.0%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 39.9%
- Turnout
- — → —