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Constituency

20. Bijnor

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962

UP-BIJNOR

INC 49.5%won by 29.3%SWA 20.2%

What changed here

Derived

Indian 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
43,339
Margin
12,717
29.34%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INCSWA swing
−23.7%
INC share
53.0% 49.5%
SWA share
0.0% 20.2%
Turnout