Constituency
338. Ferozepur
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-FEROZEPUR
INC 36.2%won by 10.0%JS 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.0% to 10.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 26.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.3% between them, down from 69.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 61.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,21,386
Turnout
61.5%
Valid votes
3,20,407
Margin
32,152
10.03%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1IQBAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC1,15,91336.2%
- 2KULBIR SINGHJS · JS83,76126.1%
- 3TEJA SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI65,65520.5%
- 4TARA SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD44,11513.8%
- 5PARTAP SINGHIndependent · IND6,3202.0%
- 6MAST RAMIndependent · IND4,6431.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −33.1%
- INC share
- 43.2% → 36.2%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- 65.2% → 61.5%