Constituency
344. Kaimganj
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-KAIMGANJ
PSP 33.6%won by 6.5%JS 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 6.5%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 20.0% to 33.6% of the vote here (+13.6%).
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 27.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 60.6% of the vote between them, up from 55.1% — 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
55,546
Margin
3,593
6.47%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1SIA RAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP18,63733.6%
- 2GIRISH CHANDRAJS · JS15,04427.1%
- 3SULTAN ALAM KHANIndian National Congress · INC14,84026.7%
- 4SADIQ NAWAZREP · REP7,02512.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–JS swing
- −13.5%
- PSP share
- 20.0% → 33.6%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —