Constituency
380. Rampur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-RAMPUR
INC 46.9%won by 22.1%JS 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.8% to 22.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,21,922
Turnout
46.8%
Valid votes
1,97,495
Margin
43,695
22.12%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1AHMAD MAHDIIndian National Congress · INC92,63646.9%
- 2SHANTI SHARANJS · JS48,94124.8%
- 3ASLAM KHANPraja Socialist Party · PSP30,43915.4%
- 4RATAN BEHARI LALIndependent · IND8,3484.2%
- 5RANA RAJ MAHENDRA CHANDRA PAL SINGHRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP7,7423.9%
- 6KAILASH CHAND BHARADWAJIndependent · IND6,2733.2%
- 7SHAH ASGHAR ALIIndependent · IND3,1161.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −46.3%
- INC share
- 68.4% → 46.9%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- 46.3% → 46.8%