Constituency
325. Kanpur City V
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-KANPUR-CITY-V
INC 41.9%won by 17.2%IND 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.8% to 17.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Praja Socialist Party (PSP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.7% between them, down from 79.1% — 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
51,118
Margin
8,791
17.20%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SUSHILA ROHATGIIndian National Congress · INC21,44041.9%
- 2MANOHAR LALIndependent · IND12,64924.7%
- 3C. M. SADRICommunist Party of India · CPI7,38914.5%
- 4SHRI NIWAS SHASTRIJS · JS5,0759.9%
- 5VIRENDRA BAHADUR SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,3364.6%
- 6RAM PRASADREP · REP1,6553.2%
- 7DHARAM PAL KUREELSOC · SOC5741.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −18.9%
- INC share
- 52.4% → 41.9%
- IND share
- 16.3% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —