Constituency
429. Dehradun
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1962
UP-DEHRADUN
INC 28.3%won by 0.6%IND 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.7% to 0.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.9% between them, down from 74.0% — 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
44,695
Margin
282
0.63%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BRIJ BHUSHAN SARANIndian National Congress · INC12,63828.3%
- 2RAM SWARUPIndependent · IND12,35627.6%
- 3SWAMI NITYA NANDJS · JS9,21020.6%
- 4SUNIL CHANDRA DUTTAIndependent · IND6,01713.5%
- 5SADHU SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,2489.5%
- 6BABU RAM GUPTAHMS · HMS1440.3%
- 7B. S. HUDSONIndependent · IND820.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −14.1%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 28.3%
- IND share
- 29.6% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- — → —