Constituency
49. Gauhati
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-GAUHATI
PSP 49.9%won by 12.0%INC 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedPraja 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%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1HEM BORUAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,33,81249.9%
- 2TIRTHA NATH SARMAHIndian National Congress · INC1,01,75037.9%
- 3NANDESWAR TALUKDARCommunist Party of India · CPI32,60012.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- −7.6%
- PSP share
- 59.8% → 49.9%
- INC share
- 40.2% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- 57.1% → 57.4%