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Constituency

258. Khandwa

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Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962

MP-KHANDWA

INC 63.1%won by 32.4%JS 30.7%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.0% to 32.4%.

  • New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 30.7% — it did not contest here in 1957.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.7% of the vote between them, up from 66.5% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
32,359
Margin
10,484
32.40%

Candidates

3 contested · winner INC
  1. 1BHAGWANT RAOIndian National Congress · INC20,40863.1%
  2. 2CHANDRABHANJS · JS9,92430.7%
  3. 3BHASKER RAOPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,0276.3%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCJS swing
−2.8%
INC share
35.2% 63.1%
JS share
0.0% 30.7%
Turnout