Constituency
327. Kangra
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-KANGRA
INC 40.7%won by 16.2%IND 24.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.8% to 16.2%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.3% of the vote between them, up from 50.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.8% to 41.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,31,812
Turnout
41.7%
Valid votes
1,80,044
Margin
29,182
16.21%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1HEM RAJIndian National Congress · INC73,34240.7%
- 2SARWAN KUMARIndependent · IND44,16024.5%
- 3DALIP SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI36,56620.3%
- 4BHAGWAT GURUIndependent · IND25,97614.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +11.8%
- INC share
- 25.7% → 40.7%
- IND share
- 21.4% → 24.5%
- Turnout
- 33.9% → 41.7%