Constituency
124. Amethi
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-AMETHI
INC 53.9%won by 34.5%IND 19.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 28.4% to 34.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.3% between them, down from 81.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
35,963
Margin
12,425
34.55%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1VAIDYA BAIJ NATH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC19,39153.9%
- 2RAM BALIIndependent · IND6,96619.4%
- 3RAM LAKHANJS · JS6,14017.1%
- 4RAM PYAREPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,4669.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +6.2%
- INC share
- 54.7% → 53.9%
- IND share
- 26.3% → 19.4%
- Turnout
- — → —