Constituency
405. Balrampur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-BALRAMPUR
INC 43.3%won by 0.9%JS 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.8% to 43.3% of the vote here (−4.5%).
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 42.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.8% 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
4,66,671
Turnout
50.6%
Valid votes
2,36,023
Margin
2,052
0.87%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SUBHADRA JOSHIIndian National Congress · INC1,02,26043.3%
- 2ATAL BEHARI BAJPAIJS · JS1,00,20842.5%
- 3AHMAD NASIR USMANISwatantra Party · SWA24,57510.4%
- 4SWAROOP NATHHMS · HMS5,0462.1%
- 5VISHWA NATH AGRAWALIndependent · IND3,9341.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JS swing
- −47.0%
- INC share
- 47.8% → 43.3%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- 51.2% → 50.6%