Constituency
166. Shahdol
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-SHAHDOL
SOC 39.7%won by 2.7%INC 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to SOC (SOC), which now leads by 2.7%.
- SOC vote shareSOC went from 0.0% to 39.7% of the vote here (+39.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.6% of the vote between them, up from 44.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 19.7% to 29.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,58,324
Turnout
29.3%
Valid votes
1,34,079
Margin
3,667
2.73%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SOC- 1BUDDHU SINGHSOC · SOC53,21839.7%
- 2JHALKAN KUMARIIndian National Congress · INC49,55137.0%
- 3DHAN SHAHJS · JS21,51516.0%
- 4RAM MILANPraja Socialist Party · PSP9,7957.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SOCflipped
- SOC–INC swing
- +25.8%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 39.7%
- INC share
- 23.0% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- 49.0% → 29.3%