Constituency
111. Delhi Sadar
Community mirrorDelhi · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-DELHI-SADAR
INC 48.4%won by 14.5%JS 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.3% to 14.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 33.8% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.2% between them, down from 95.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,34,520
Turnout
69.1%
Valid votes
1,62,016
Margin
23,534
14.53%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHIV CHARAN GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC78,34048.4%
- 2BHAI MAHAVIRJS · JS54,80633.8%
- 3KANWAR LAL GUPTAIndependent · IND26,69916.5%
- 4GOPAL KRISHANIndependent · IND2,1711.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −40.0%
- INC share
- 54.6% → 48.4%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- 67.9% → 69.1%