Constituency
397. Musafirkhana
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-MUSAFIRKHANA
INC 48.3%won by 31.1%SOC 17.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.0% to 31.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOC (SOC) finished second with 17.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.9% to 40.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,95,994
Turnout
40.7%
Valid votes
1,61,209
Margin
50,194
31.14%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1KUNWAR RANANJAI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC77,86948.3%
- 2JAGROOPSOC · SOC27,67517.2%
- 3SHYAMTA PRASADJS · JS22,86314.2%
- 4ABDUL WAHIDIndependent · IND14,4569.0%
- 5VIDYA DHAR BAJPAISwatantra Party · SWA10,3386.4%
- 6HARI SHARAN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP8,0085.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOC swing
- −29.8%
- INC share
- 61.0% → 48.3%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 17.2%
- Turnout
- 33.8% → 40.7%