Constituency
402. Hastinapur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-HASTINAPUR
INC 52.0%won by 31.1%JS 21.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 30.2% to 31.1%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 21.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
48,889
Margin
15,191
31.07%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PITAM SINGH OF PIRNAGARIndian National Congress · INC25,43852.0%
- 2VED PRAKASHJS · JS10,24721.0%
- 3PITAM SINGH OF BEHZADKACommunist Party of India · CPI8,95318.3%
- 4GOPI CHANDSOC · SOC4,2518.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −20.1%
- INC share
- 51.2% → 52.0%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 21.0%
- Turnout
- — → —