Constituency
20. Bijnor
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-BIJNOR
INC 49.5%won by 29.3%SWA 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.1% to 29.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 20.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
43,339
Margin
12,717
29.34%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1SATYA VIRIndian National Congress · INC21,47249.5%
- 2NEPAL SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA8,75520.2%
- 3MUKANDI SINGHSOC · SOC3,4177.9%
- 4VISHN SARUPJS · JS2,9396.8%
- 5DURGA DUTT SINGHIndependent · IND2,5806.0%
- 6PHULLOOHMS · HMS2,1244.9%
- 7AMIR HASSANIndependent · IND9392.2%
- 8BUDHUIndependent · IND9042.1%
- 9TIRLOKI PRASADIndependent · IND2090.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −23.7%
- INC share
- 53.0% → 49.5%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —