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Constituency

220. Bhopal

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962

MP-BHOPAL

CPI 38.2%won by 0.5%HMS 37.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
44,365
Margin
233
0.53%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPIHMS swing
−11.8%
CPI share
46.1% 38.2%
HMS share
33.8% 37.6%
Turnout