Constituency
400. Faizabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-FAIZABAD
INC 40.1%won by 5.7%JS 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.0% to 5.7%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 34.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.5% of the vote between them, up from 41.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 28.4% to 47.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,99,568
Turnout
47.4%
Valid votes
1,89,201
Margin
10,852
5.74%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BRIJ BASI LALIndian National Congress · INC75,93940.1%
- 2RAJENDRA BAHADUR SINGHJS · JS65,08734.4%
- 3MATA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND40,09621.2%
- 4SURYA PALSwatantra Party · SWA8,0794.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −16.3%
- INC share
- 22.1% → 40.1%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- 75.7% → 47.4%