Constituency
196. Raigarh
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-RAIGARH
INC 44.4%won by 12.3%BJS 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Rashtrawadi Party (RRP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.2% to 44.4% of the vote here (+18.2%).
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 32.1% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.5% of the vote between them, up from 57.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.1% to 46.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,04,247
Turnout
46.9%
Valid votes
2,36,458
Margin
29,146
12.33%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1R. GANDHAIndian National Congress · INC1,04,98044.4%
- 2NARHARIPRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS75,83432.1%
- 3SUKHRAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP27,21011.5%
- 4N. SINGHIndependent · IND14,3536.1%
- 5DUKHRAMIndependent · IND14,0816.0%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- RRP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- −13.8%
- INC share
- 26.2% → 44.4%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- 41.7% → 46.9%