Constituency
375. Almora
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-ALMORA
INC 48.8%won by 25.6%JS 23.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.1% to 25.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 23.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.1% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.3% to 26.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,01,359
Turnout
26.3%
Valid votes
1,05,501
Margin
26,998
25.59%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1JANG BAHADUR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC51,50748.8%
- 2PRATAP SINGHJS · JS24,50923.2%
- 3POORNA NANDIndependent · IND17,80516.9%
- 4POORAN CHANDRAPraja Socialist Party · PSP11,68011.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −29.5%
- INC share
- 55.1% → 48.8%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 23.2%
- Turnout
- 24.0% → 26.3%