Constituency
284. Soraon East
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-SORAON-EAST
INC 55.2%won by 38.9%PSP 16.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.8% to 38.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.5% between them, down from 80.4% — the field split more ways.
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
37,029
Margin
14,404
38.90%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SHEO MURTIIndian National Congress · INC20,44155.2%
- 2SHANKAR LALPraja Socialist Party · PSP6,03716.3%
- 3RAM BHAJAN PATELSOC · SOC5,59515.1%
- 4RAM NATHJS · JS4,50012.2%
- 5SANGRAM SINGHIndependent · IND4561.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −7.1%
- INC share
- 60.1% → 55.2%
- PSP share
- 14.1% → 16.3%
- Turnout
- — → —