Constituency
250. Dewas
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-DEWAS
INC 49.7%won by 23.3%JS 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 23.3%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 26.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.1% of the vote between them, up from 45.8% — 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
21,557
Margin
5,013
23.25%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BAPULALIndian National Congress · INC10,70849.7%
- 2NAND RAMJS · JS5,69526.4%
- 3KHANIYA SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,15423.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- +0.2%
- INC share
- 23.1% → 49.7%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —