Constituency
12. Almora
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-ALMORA
INC 57.5%won by 19.6%JS 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 43.4% to 57.5% of the vote here (+14.1%).
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 37.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.4% of the vote between them, up from 90.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
30,514
Margin
5,990
19.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1GANGA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC17,54557.5%
- 2GOVIND SINGHJS · JS11,55537.9%
- 3DEVENDRA SANWALSOC · SOC7352.4%
- 4AMBA DATTPraja Socialist Party · PSP4081.3%
- 5SANT RAMIndependent · IND2710.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JS swing
- −23.7%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 57.5%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- — → —