Constituency
269. Chandauli
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-CHANDAULI
INC 49.0%won by 21.5%SOC 27.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.2% to 21.5%.
- New challengerSOC (SOC) finished second with 27.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.5% of the vote between them, up from 55.8% — 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
48,077
Margin
10,334
21.49%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1KAMLAPATI TRIPATHIIndian National Congress · INC23,56849.0%
- 2NIHAL SINGHSOC · SOC13,23427.5%
- 3AVADHESH NARAINPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,7369.9%
- 4MARAHUIndependent · IND3,8448.0%
- 5JOGIJS · JS1,5563.2%
- 6AMBIKACommunist Party of India · CPI1,1392.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOC swing
- −6.5%
- INC share
- 28.0% → 49.0%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —