Constituency
404. Meerut Cantonment
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-MEERUT-CANTONMENT
INC 40.5%won by 20.5%CPI 20.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.6% to 20.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 60.5% between them, down from 80.8% — 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
46,764
Margin
9,602
20.53%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRAKASHWATI SOODIndian National Congress · INC18,94240.5%
- 2SHANTI SWAROOPCommunist Party of India · CPI9,34020.0%
- 3GAJADHAR TEWARIJS · JS6,88614.7%
- 4B. D. LONDON TORESOC · SOC5,18911.1%
- 5INDU TRIVEDISwatantra Party · SWA3,9018.3%
- 6MANPHOOLIndependent · IND1,5693.4%
- 7JAGAT RAM SETHIPraja Socialist Party · PSP9372.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −4.1%
- INC share
- 52.7% → 40.5%
- CPI share
- 28.1% → 20.0%
- Turnout
- — → —