Constituency
205. Balaghat
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-BALAGHAT
INC 50.6%won by 31.1%RPI 19.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 31.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 38.1% to 50.6% of the vote here (+12.4%).
- New challengerRPI (RPI) finished second with 19.5% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.0% between them, down from 77.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.8% to 53.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,68,694
Turnout
53.0%
Valid votes
2,48,228
Margin
77,217
31.11%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1C.R. GAUTAMIndian National Congress · INC1,25,54050.6%
- 2R. BHANWARERPI · RPI48,32319.5%
- 3B.R. PARDHIPraja Socialist Party · PSP34,22013.8%
- 4R. UMREIndependent · IND15,8186.4%
- 5R. RAGHUNATHIndependent · IND13,0905.3%
- 6R. PATHAKCommunist Party of India · CPI11,2374.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–RPI swing
- −7.0%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 50.6%
- RPI share
- 0.0% → 19.5%
- Turnout
- 42.2% → 53.0%