Constituency
350. Shikohabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-SHIKOHABAD
IND 33.0%won by 1.1%INC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.2% to 1.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.8% between them, down from 85.2% — 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
58,702
Margin
657
1.12%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1MANSA RAMIndependent · IND19,34433.0%
- 2RAM SWARUP YADAVIndian National Congress · INC18,68731.8%
- 3LAYAQ SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA10,57918.0%
- 4GAYA PRASADREP · REP6,83011.6%
- 5NANAK CHANDJS · JS1,8983.2%
- 6KAMESHWAR PRASAD SHARMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,3642.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–INC swing
- −24.1%
- IND share
- 55.2% → 33.0%
- INC share
- 30.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —