Constituency
53. Damoh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh Assembly Election, 1977
MP-DAMOH
INC 43.3%won by 1.6%JNP 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.0% to 43.3% of the vote here (+5.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 41.7% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.1% between them, down from 94.3% — 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
43,275
Margin
696
1.61%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PRABHU NARAIN TANDONIndian National Congress · INC18,75943.3%
- 2SANTOSH BHARATIJanata Party · JNP18,06341.7%
- 3KRISHNA ANANDIndependent · IND3,7208.6%
- 4BHAGWANDAS BANSHIDHARIndependent · IND8662.0%
- 5SHYAMLAL CHOUBEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8502.0%
- 6KESHVRAM PATELIndependent · IND6611.5%
- 7PRATAP SINGH PRAHLAD SINGHIndependent · IND2620.6%
- 8PURUSHOTTAM LAL CHODHARYIndependent · IND940.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- −36.4%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 43.3%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- — → —