Constituency
97. Purwa
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-PURWA
INC 24.9%won by 8.0%JS 17.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.4% to 24.9% of the vote here (−4.4%).
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 17.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 41.9% between them, down from 65.2% — 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
40,858
Margin
3,262
7.98%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1RAM ADHIN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,19024.9%
- 2HANSRAJJS · JS6,92817.0%
- 3RAM AOUTARIndependent · IND5,10512.5%
- 4PREM SHANKERIndependent · IND4,87211.9%
- 5DULAREY LALIndependent · IND3,6458.9%
- 6MUTI ULLAIndependent · IND3,0677.5%
- 7GAYA SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,1035.1%
- 8HIRA LALIndependent · IND1,9124.7%
- 9SATYA NARAIN OF V. MAKURIndependent · IND1,8604.6%
- 10SATYA NARAIN OF V. BEWAL MAUSA KHERAIndependent · IND1,1762.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JS swing
- −21.4%
- INC share
- 29.4% → 24.9%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 17.0%
- Turnout
- — → —