Election
Constituency

420. Rasra

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Uttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962

IN-RASRA

CPI 38.8%won by 3.9%INC 34.9%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.1% to 3.9%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.7% of the vote between them, up from 64.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
4,40,724
Turnout
51.6%
Valid votes
2,27,568
Margin
8,779
3.86%

Candidates

4 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1SARJOO PANDEYCommunist Party of India · CPI88,25338.8%
  2. 2SIDDHESHWAR PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC79,47434.9%
  3. 3NAGINA SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP39,36517.3%
  4. 4CHANDRADEOSOC · SOC20,4769.0%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–INC swing
−1.3%
CPI share
34.6% → 38.8%
INC share
29.4% → 34.9%
Turnout
51.3% → 51.6%
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