Constituency
429. Allahabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-ALLAHABAD
INC 58.1%won by 29.0%JS 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 26.2% to 29.0%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 29.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,46,090
Turnout
53.0%
Valid votes
2,36,488
Margin
68,533
28.98%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1LAL BAHADUR SHASTRIIndian National Congress · INC1,37,32458.1%
- 2RAM GOPAL SANDJS · JS68,79129.1%
- 3MUBARAK MAZDOORIndependent · IND30,37312.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −29.4%
- INC share
- 58.4% → 58.1%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- 51.5% → 53.0%