Constituency
185. Bhopal
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-BHOPAL
INC 36.6%won by 8.5%HMS 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.8% to 8.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,07,527
Turnout
44.8%
Valid votes
2,27,292
Margin
19,306
8.49%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MAIMOONA SULTANIndian National Congress · INC83,20436.6%
- 2OM PARKASHHMS · HMS63,89828.1%
- 3MAHIPALJS · JS38,21116.8%
- 4MOHINICommunist Party of India · CPI34,01015.0%
- 5SHIV CHARANIndependent · IND7,9693.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–HMS swing
- −4.3%
- INC share
- 41.2% → 36.6%
- HMS share
- 28.4% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- 46.0% → 44.8%