Constituency
124. Patan
Community mirrorGujarat · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-PATAN
INC 57.8%won by 31.3%SWA 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 31.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 40.7% to 57.8% of the vote here (+17.1%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 26.6% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.4% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.2% to 55.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,89,956
Turnout
55.8%
Valid votes
2,17,521
Margin
68,013
31.27%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SWA swing
- −9.4%
- INC share
- 40.7% → 57.8%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- 58.9% → 55.8%