Constituency
256. Shahpur
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-SHAHPUR
PSP 44.8%won by 4.6%INC 40.3%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.3% to 4.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.1% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
37,754
Margin
1,722
4.56%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1DURGABAIPraja Socialist Party · PSP16,92044.8%
- 2SHAMRAOIndian National Congress · INC15,19840.3%
- 3GOPALRAOREP · REP3,6849.8%
- 4BABURAOJS · JS1,9525.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- +1.2%
- PSP share
- 51.7% → 44.8%
- INC share
- 48.3% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- — → —