Constituency
225. Bhopal
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1967
MP-BHOPAL
CPI 41.0%won by 8.8%BJS 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.5% to 8.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
45,881
Margin
4,040
8.81%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1S. A. K. N. ALICommunist Party of India · CPI18,81941.0%
- 2U. D. MEHTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS14,77932.2%
- 3S. N. AGARWALIndian National Congress · INC10,24722.3%
- 4B. B. GOYALIndependent · IND1,2212.7%
- 5N. J. SARANIndependent · IND4210.9%
- 6S. U. K. H. U. KHANIndependent · IND2790.6%
- 7S. R. MUNNALALIndependent · IND1150.3%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJS swing
- −29.4%
- CPI share
- 38.2% → 41.0%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —