Constituency
341. Bhojpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-BHOJPUR
INC 27.0%won by 10.8%CPI 16.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.3% to 10.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 16.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 43.3% between them, down from 51.8% — 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
40,230
Margin
4,328
10.76%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1MAHRAM SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,87127.0%
- 2SUNDER LALCommunist Party of India · CPI6,54316.3%
- 3SOMVANSHI BABUPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,41413.5%
- 4NET RAMIndependent · IND5,11012.7%
- 5RAM SWARUP SINGHSOC · SOC4,04310.0%
- 6ABDUL JALIL KHANREP · REP3,4208.5%
- 7VIRENDRA SINGHJS · JS2,9707.4%
- 8SUBHAS CHANDRA DUBEYSwatantra Party · SWA1,0722.7%
- 9SIYA RAMRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP7872.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −23.3%
- INC share
- 34.0% → 27.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 16.3%
- Turnout
- — → —