Constituency
224. Azamgarh
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-AZAMGARH
PSP 48.8%won by 15.5%INC 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.2% to 15.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.2% of the vote between them, up from 67.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
44,841
Margin
6,929
15.45%
Candidates
7 contested · winner PSP- 1BHIMA PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP21,88548.8%
- 2BRAHMCHARI CHANDRA BALIIndian National Congress · INC14,95633.4%
- 3CHANDRA DEOJS · JS3,5167.8%
- 4DEENBANDHUSwatantra Party · SWA1,4973.3%
- 5LAXMISOC · SOC1,3713.1%
- 6KAMLAKARIndependent · IND1,2882.9%
- 7SHITLAIndependent · IND3280.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- −1.8%
- PSP share
- 42.3% → 48.8%
- INC share
- 25.1% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —