Constituency
407. Basti
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-BASTI
INC 44.6%won by 9.3%JS 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.2% to 9.3%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 35.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.9% of the vote between them, up from 54.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 47.7% to 49.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,14,207
Turnout
49.1%
Valid votes
2,03,533
Margin
18,921
9.30%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KESHAVA DEVA MALAVIYAIndian National Congress · INC90,73544.6%
- 2K. K. K. NAYARJS · JS71,81435.3%
- 3SUKHPALPraja Socialist Party · PSP21,50710.6%
- 4DIGVIJA NATHHMS · HMS12,3996.1%
- 5SITA RAM SHUKLAIndependent · IND7,0783.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −21.5%
- INC share
- 30.8% → 44.6%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 96.9% → 49.1%