Constituency
176. Merta
Community mirrorRajasthan Assembly Election, 1962
RJ-MERTA
INC 50.7%won by 16.7%IND 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 16.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.7% of the vote between them, up from 63.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
37,217
Margin
6,213
16.69%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1NATHU RAMIndian National Congress · INC18,87150.7%
- 2AHSAN ALIIndependent · IND12,65834.0%
- 3RAM NATHSwatantra Party · SWA4,91813.2%
- 4BHAGWAN DASSIndependent · IND7702.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +13.3%
- INC share
- 33.3% → 50.7%
- IND share
- 29.9% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —