Constituency
100. Malihabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-MALIHABAD
INC 30.8%won by 0.8%CPI 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.5% to 0.8%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 351 votes (0.77%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
45,621
Margin
351
0.77%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAM PAL TRIVEDIIndian National Congress · INC14,05630.8%
- 2AHMED WALI KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI13,70530.0%
- 3RAM SHANKAR SHUKLAJS · JS9,98821.9%
- 4BHOODHARPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,3709.6%
- 5GAURI SHANKARIndependent · IND1,2932.8%
- 6BHAGWATI SINGHSOC · SOC1,1452.5%
- 7LALTA BAKSH SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA1,0642.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −0.8%
- INC share
- 30.5% → 30.8%
- CPI share
- 29.0% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —