Constituency
350. Sikar
Community mirrorRajasthan · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-SIKAR
INC 34.9%won by 13.0%JS 21.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 13.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 21.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.9% between them, down from 79.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.2% to 54.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,65,424
Turnout
54.6%
Valid votes
2,54,228
Margin
33,107
13.02%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAMESHWARLAL TANTIAIndian National Congress · INC88,82634.9%
- 2SAGAR MALJS · JS55,71921.9%
- 3TRILOK SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI53,12320.9%
- 4BANSIDHAR SHARMAIndependent · IND18,9567.5%
- 5MAHADEOIndependent · IND16,1416.3%
- 6WARAS KHANIndependent · IND13,8095.4%
- 7BHANWAR SINGHRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP7,6543.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −29.4%
- INC share
- 42.4% → 34.9%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 21.9%
- Turnout
- 49.4% → 54.6%