Constituency
189. Sagar
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-SAGAR
INC 35.3%won by 10.2%INC 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.4% to 10.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.3% between them, down from 76.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 35.3% to 75.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,52,447
Turnout
75.0%
Valid votes
5,64,508
Margin
57,747
10.23%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1JAWALA PRASAD JYOTISHIIndian National Congress · INC1,99,14735.3%
- 2SAHODRA BAI MURLIDHAR (SC)Indian National Congress · INC1,41,40025.0%
- 3DHANI RAM VALTHOOBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS81,68114.5%
- 4KANCHHEDI PYARELALPraja Socialist Party · PSP74,15413.1%
- 5BALA PRASAD HAZARILALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS68,12612.1%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 55.7% → 35.3%
- INC share
- 55.7% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 39.7% → 75.0%