Constituency
246. Rajapur
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-RAJAPUR
PSP 48.9%won by 17.8%INC 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 66.7% to 17.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 31.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.0% between them, down from 94.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,58,888
Turnout
43.8%
Valid votes
1,57,339
Margin
27,943
17.76%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1NATH BAPU PAIPraja Socialist Party · PSP76,91848.9%
- 2KESHAO VYANKATESH RANEIndian National Congress · INC48,97531.1%
- 3JAGANNATH RAMKRISHNA TAWADEPWP · PWP20,04212.7%
- 4ARJUN BALWANT WALAWALKARJS · JS11,4047.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- −49.0%
- PSP share
- 80.6% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 13.9% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- 45.6% → 43.8%