Constituency
42. Islamnagar
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-ISLAMNAGAR
INC 34.3%won by 4.3%JS 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 4.8% to 4.3%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 30.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
38,472
Margin
1,656
4.30%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SURAJPAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC13,20534.3%
- 2MOTI RAMJS · JS11,54930.0%
- 3RAM LALREP · REP3,94910.3%
- 4MAHIPALPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,5999.4%
- 5GULAB SINGHIndependent · IND3,4388.9%
- 6BHUPAL ALIAS BHUPAL SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI1,5013.9%
- 7DEVKI NANDAN (DADDA)SOC · SOC1,2313.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −31.6%
- INC share
- 35.9% → 34.3%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —