Election
Constituency

345. Gurdaspur

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Punjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962

IN-GURDASPUR

INC 48.1%won by 19.5%AD 28.5%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 19.6% to 19.5%.

  • New challengerApna Dal (Kamerawadi) (AD) finished second with 28.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.6% of the vote between them, up from 61.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
4,54,322
Turnout
63.6%
Valid votes
2,89,049
Margin
56,498
19.55%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1DEWAN CHANDIndian National Congress · INC1,38,90748.1%
  2. 2NATHA SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD82,40928.5%
  3. 3DILBAGH RAIJS · JS55,44219.2%
  4. 4HARBANS SINGHIndependent · IND6,7812.3%
  5. 5PRITPAL SINGHIndependent · IND5,5101.9%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–AD swing
−20.7%
INC share
40.3% → 48.1%
AD share
0.0% → 28.5%
Turnout
63.5% → 63.6%
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