Constituency
220. Bhopal
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-BHOPAL
CPI 38.2%won by 0.5%HMS 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.3% to 0.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 233 votes (0.53%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
44,365
Margin
233
0.53%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1SHAKIR ALI KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI16,93338.2%
- 2UDDAV DASSHMS · HMS16,70037.6%
- 3FAKHRUDDINIndian National Congress · INC10,73224.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–HMS swing
- −11.8%
- CPI share
- 46.1% → 38.2%
- HMS share
- 33.8% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- — → —