Constituency
370. Mathura
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-MATHURA
INC 41.6%won by 5.7%JS 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.8% to 5.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 35.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 90.5% — 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
52,176
Margin
2,954
5.66%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1KEDAR NATHIndian National Congress · INC21,70041.6%
- 2DEVI CHARANJS · JS18,74635.9%
- 3DAMODARCommunist Party of India · CPI7,07013.6%
- 4KISHAN LALREP · REP2,7545.3%
- 5NRATYANDRA BEHARIPraja Socialist Party · PSP4720.9%
- 6INDER SENIndependent · IND4580.9%
- 7KRISHNA DASSIndependent · IND3930.8%
- 8DHRUVJIIndependent · IND3890.7%
- 9LAKSHMAN PRASADSOC · SOC1940.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −49.0%
- INC share
- 54.7% → 41.6%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- — → —