Constituency
217. Budhni
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-BUDHNI
IND 35.5%won by 12.5%HMS 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 12.5%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 31.9% to 35.5% of the vote here (+3.7%).
- New challengerHMS (HMS) finished second with 23.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.6% between them, down from 66.3% — 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
24,601
Margin
3,082
12.53%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1BANSI DHARIndependent · IND8,74435.5%
- 2MATHRA PRASADHMS · HMS5,66223.0%
- 3RAJKUMARI SURAJ KALAIndian National Congress · INC5,17321.0%
- 4MISHRI LALCommunist Party of India · CPI3,97316.1%
- 5MOTILAL ALIAS MURLIDHARIndependent · IND1,0494.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–HMS swing
- −19.3%
- IND share
- 31.9% → 35.5%
- HMS share
- 0.0% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —