Constituency
278. Meja
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-MEJA
PSP 54.5%won by 16.8%INC 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 16.8%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 24.4% to 54.5% of the vote here (+30.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 53.3% — 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
58,363
Margin
9,833
16.85%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1SALIG RAM JAISWALPraja Socialist Party · PSP31,78454.5%
- 2MANGLA PRASADIndian National Congress · INC21,95137.6%
- 3BHAWANI PRASADJS · JS4,6287.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +20.4%
- PSP share
- 24.4% → 54.5%
- INC share
- 27.9% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- — → —