Constituency
321. Kanpur City I
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-KANPUR-CITY-I
INC 46.4%won by 26.8%PSP 19.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.4% to 26.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.0% between them, down from 74.1% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 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
51,687
Margin
13,866
26.83%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1TARA AGARWALIndian National Congress · INC23,99446.4%
- 2SHAKUNTLA SRIVASTAVAPraja Socialist Party · PSP10,12819.6%
- 3LAKSHMI NARAIN DIKSHITJS · JS6,24712.1%
- 4SALIGRAMREP · REP4,9309.5%
- 5RADHEY LAL ARORAIndependent · IND3,9467.6%
- 6MOHAN LAL KHANNASOC · SOC1,3012.5%
- 7RAJENDRA BHADUR PALIWALIndependent · IND1,1412.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- +5.4%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 46.4%
- PSP share
- 26.3% → 19.6%
- Turnout
- — → —