Constituency
334. Gurgaon
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-GURGAON
INC 37.1%won by 6.1%IND 31.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 33.4% to 6.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 29.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 31.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.2% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.5% to 60.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,00,008
Turnout
60.5%
Valid votes
3,02,403
Margin
18,418
6.09%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1GAJRAJ SINGHIndian National Congress · INC1,12,34237.1%
- 2DEVI SINGHIndependent · IND93,92431.1%
- 3HARDAYAL DEVGUNJS · JS39,30513.0%
- 4RAHMAT KHANIndependent · IND27,0689.0%
- 5ABDUL GHANIREP · REP21,4467.1%
- 6SAME SINGHIndependent · IND8,3182.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −60.6%
- INC share
- 66.7% → 37.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 31.1%
- Turnout
- 66.0% → 60.5%