Constituency
258. Khandwa
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
MP-KHANDWA
INC 63.1%won by 32.4%JS 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
32,359
Margin
10,484
32.40%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BHAGWANT RAOIndian National Congress · INC20,40863.1%
- 2CHANDRABHANJS · JS9,92430.7%
- 3BHASKER RAOPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,0276.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −2.8%
- INC share
- 35.2% → 63.1%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —