Constituency
374. Garhwal
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-GARHWAL
INC 48.1%won by 23.9%IND 24.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.8% to 23.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.2% between them, down from 86.2% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,91,864
Turnout
36.1%
Valid votes
1,41,408
Margin
33,777
23.89%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BHAKTA DARSHANIndian National Congress · INC67,95948.1%
- 2CHANDRA SINGH GARHWALIIndependent · IND34,18224.2%
- 3SUKHBIR SINGHJS · JS13,4249.5%
- 4RISHI BALLABHIndependent · IND9,6416.8%
- 5A. WAHIDREP · REP9,1556.5%
- 6MANIK LALIndependent · IND7,0475.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +9.1%
- INC share
- 50.5% → 48.1%
- IND share
- 35.7% → 24.2%
- Turnout
- 37.6% → 36.1%