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Constituency

49. Gauhati

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Assam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962

IN-GAUHATI

PSP 49.9%won by 12.0%INC 37.9%

What changed here

Derived

Praja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.5% to 12.0%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.8% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
4,67,175
Turnout
57.4%
Valid votes
2,68,162
Margin
32,062
11.96%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
PSP
Winner now
PSP
PSPINC swing
−7.6%
PSP share
59.8% 49.9%
INC share
40.2% 37.9%
Turnout
57.1% 57.4%