Constituency
252. Shahganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-SHAHGANJ
INC 56.0%won by 26.0%IND 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.6% to 56.0% of the vote here (+32.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.0% of the vote between them, up from 47.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
57,602
Margin
14,994
26.03%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1LAKSHAMI SHANKERIndian National Congress · INC32,26056.0%
- 2THAKUR PRASADIndependent · IND17,26630.0%
- 3TUFAIL AHMEDPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,4776.0%
- 4JAGARNATHIndependent · IND2,5874.5%
- 5SARJUIndependent · IND1,2892.2%
- 6PRASIDH NARAIN "PATHIK" ALIAS PRASIDHI LALRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP7231.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +26.4%
- INC share
- 23.6% → 56.0%
- IND share
- 24.0% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —