Constituency
181. Jhabua
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-JHABUA
INC 53.5%won by 30.0%BJS 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.3% to 30.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
3,74,691
Turnout
37.0%
Valid votes
1,38,510
Margin
41,596
30.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1AMARSINGH (ST)Indian National Congress · INC74,16553.5%
- 2NATHUSINGH (ST)Bharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS32,56923.5%
- 3MANSINGH (ST)Independent · IND31,77622.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +15.3%
- INC share
- 41.4% → 53.5%
- BJS share
- 26.6% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- 38.2% → 37.0%