Constituency
378. Amroha
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-AMROHA
INC 29.3%won by 7.9%JS 21.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.0% to 7.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 21.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 50.8% between them, down from 66.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.8% to 51.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,23,038
Turnout
51.6%
Valid votes
2,18,385
Margin
17,192
7.87%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1HIFZUL RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC64,02229.3%
- 2HARDEV SAHAIJS · JS46,83021.4%
- 3ABDUL WAHIDREP · REP24,00011.0%
- 4PIRAN SUKHIndependent · IND23,66810.8%
- 5RIZWAN AHMADSOC · SOC14,4096.6%
- 6BABU RAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP13,7866.3%
- 7MINZAR HUSAINIndependent · IND11,6455.3%
- 8SHRADDHA KUMARIIndependent · IND10,1484.6%
- 9BOOTA RAMIndependent · IND9,8774.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −31.3%
- INC share
- 39.2% → 29.3%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 21.4%
- Turnout
- 47.8% → 51.6%