Constituency
387. Khurja
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-KHURJA
INC 20.9%won by 0.9%PSP 20.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.9%.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 20.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 397 votes (0.92%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered6 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
42,972
Margin
397
0.92%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1MAHABIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC8,97220.9%
- 2MAHMOOD HASANPraja Socialist Party · PSP8,57520.0%
- 3SUKHVIR SINGHJS · JS8,53319.9%
- 4KHAN CHANDRAREP · REP6,64115.5%
- 5RAJBIR SINGHSOC · SOC3,5708.3%
- 6KUSHALPAL SINGHIndependent · IND2,3635.5%
- 7SHRI RAMIndependent · IND1,4113.3%
- 8BADRI PRASADSwatantra Party · SWA1,2392.9%
- 9KHACHURU SINGHIndependent · IND1,0672.5%
- 10SURAJ PRATAP BHAN SINGHIndependent · IND4181.0%
- 11IQBAL MOHD. KHANIndependent · IND1830.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- −20.4%
- INC share
- 21.3% → 20.9%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 20.0%
- Turnout
- — → —