1962 elections in India
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Legislative Assembly elections[edit]
Andhra Pradesh[edit]
PARTY | SEA | TS | VOTES POLLED | VOTE % IN | ||||
NATIONAL PARTIES | CONTESTED | WON | FD | VOTES | % | SEATS | ||
CPI | 136 | 51 | 8 | 2282767 | 19.53% | 40.58% | ||
INC | 300 | 177 | 1 | 5523359 | 47.25% | 47.25% | ||
JS | 70 | 0 | 69 | 121721 | 1.04% | 4.17% | ||
PSP | 6 | 0 | 4 | 34732 | 0.30% | 16.17% | ||
SOC | 15 | 2 | 11 | 70878 | 0.61% | 12.99% | ||
SWA | 141 | 19 | 70 | 1215987 | 10.40% | 21.81% | ||
REP | 18 | 0 | 17 | 0.40% | 6.43% | |||
IND | 302 | 51 | 174 | 20.48% | 32.75% | |||
Total | 988 | 300 | 354 | |||||
Source:ECI[1] |
Assam[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 1,179,305 | 48.25 | 79 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 310,093 | 12.69 | 6 | |
Communist Party of India | 156,153 | 6.39 | 0 | |
All Party Hill Leaders Conference | 134,591 | 5.51 | 11 | |
Socialist | 36,672 | 1.50 | 0 | |
Revolutionary Communist Party | 29,249 | 1.20 | 1 | |
Jan Singh | 10,887 | 0.45 | 0 | |
Achik Assona Chilchakgipa Kotak | 5,169 | 0.21 | 0 | |
Independents | 582,042 | 23.81 | 8 | |
Total | 2,444,161 | 100.00 | 105 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 4,942,816 | – | ||
Source: ECI |
Bihar[edit]
S. No. | Abbreviation | Party | Seats contested | Seats won |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | SWA | Swatantra Party | 259 | 50 |
2 | SOC | Socialist Party of India | 132 | 7 |
3 | PSP | Praja Socialist Party | 199 | 29 |
4 | JS | Jan Sangh | 75 | 3 |
5 | INC | Indian National Congress | 318 | 185 |
6 | CPI | Communist Party of India | 84 | 12 |
7 | RRP | Ram Rajya Parishad | 17 | 0 |
8 | JP | Jharkhand Party | 75 | 20 |
9 | HMS | Hindu Mahasabha | 3 | 0 |
10 | IND | Independent | 367 | 12 |
Gujarat[edit]
Jammu and Kashmir[edit]
Madhya Pradesh[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 2,527,257 | 38.54 | 142 | 90 | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 1,092,237 | 16.66 | 41 | 31 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 703,188 | 10.72 | 33 | 21 | |
Socialist Party | 310,181 | 4.73 | 14 | New | |
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad | 248,525 | 3.79 | 10 | 5 | |
Hindu Mahasabha | 211,639 | 3.23 | 6 | 1 | |
Swatantra Party | 80,470 | 1.23 | 2 | New | |
Communist Party of India | 132,440 | 2.02 | 1 | 1 | |
Republican Party of India | 82,345 | 1.26 | 0 | New | |
All India Forward Bloc | 16,913 | 0.26 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 1,151,955 | 17.57 | 39 | 19 | |
Total | 6,557,150 | 100.00 | 288 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 6,557,150 | 73.71 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,338,719 | 26.29 | |||
Total votes | 8,895,869 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 15,874,238 | 56.04 | |||
Source: ECI[2] |
Madras[edit]
Alliances | Party | Popular Vote | Vote % | Seats contested | Seats won | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC Seats: 139 Seat Change: -12 Popular Vote: 5,848,974 Popular Vote %: 46.14% |
Indian National Congress | 5,848,974 | 46.14% | 206 | 139 | -12 |
Others Seats: 67 Seat Change: +25 Popular Vote: 6,827,372 Popular Vote %: 53.86% |
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 3,435,633 | 27.10% | 143 | 50 | +37 |
Swatantra Party | 991,773 | 7.82% | 94 | 6 | +6 | |
Forward Bloc | 173,261 | 1.37% | 6 | 3 | +3 | |
Communist Party of India | 978,806 | 7.72% | 68 | 2 | -2 | |
Socialist | 48,753 | 0.38% | 7 | 1 | – | |
Praja Socialist Party | 159,212 | 1.26% | 21 | 0 | -2 | |
We Tamils | 117,640 | 0.93% | 16 | 0 | – | |
Indian Union Muslim League | 89,968 | 0.71% | 6 | 0 | – | |
Republican | 57,457 | 0.45% | 4 | 0 | – | |
Tamil National Party | 44,048 | 0.35% | 9 | 0 | – | |
Socialist Labour | 43,186 | 0.34% | 7 | 0 | – | |
Jan Sangh | 10,743 | 0.08% | 4 | 0 | – | |
Independents | 676,892 | 5.34% | 207 | 5 | -17 | |
Total | 13 Political Parties | 12,676,346 | 100% | — | 206 | — |
Maharashtra[edit]
Political Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | Votes polled | Votes (%) |
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Indian National Congress | 264 | 215 | 5,617,347 | 51.22% |
Peasants and Workers Party of India | 79 | 15 | 818,801 | 7.47% |
Praja Socialist Party | 101 | 9 | 792,755 | 7.23% |
Communist Party of India | 56 | 6 | 647,390 | 5.90% |
Republican Party of India | 66 | 3 | 589,653 | 5.38% |
Socialist | 14 | 1 | 54,764 | 0.50% |
Independents | 437 | 15 | 1,836,095 | 16.74% |
Mysore[edit]
Political Party |
Contestants |
Seats won |
Seat change |
Number of votes |
Vote share |
Net change | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 208 | 138 | 12 | 3,164,811 | 50.22% | 1.80 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 84 | 20 | 2 | 887,363 | 14.08% | 0.02 | |
Swatantra Party | 59 | 9 | 450,713 | 7.15% | |||
Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti | 6 | 6 | 136878 | 2.17% | |||
Lok Sewak Sangh | 17 | 4 | 159,545 | 2.53% | |||
Independents | 27 | 9 | 1,091,011 | 17.31% | N/A | ||
Total | 208 | ' |
Punjab[edit]
Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1962[3] | ||||||
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Party | Contestants | Seats won | Popular vote | % | ||
Indian National Congress | 154 | 90 | 29,46,209 | 43.72 | ||
Shiromani Akali Dal | 46 | 16 | 7,99,925 | 11.87 | ||
Communist Party of India | 47 | 12 | 4,78,333 | 7.10 | ||
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 80 | 8 | 6,55,160 | 9.72 | ||
Socialist Party | 8 | 4 | 93,801 | 1.39 | ||
Swatantra Party | 42 | 3 | 2,61,276 | 3.88 | ||
Haryana Lok Samiti | 8 | 3 | 1,29,036 | 1.91 | ||
Independents | 330 | 18 | 11,57,113 | 17.17 | ||
Others | 41 | 0 | 2,18,370 | 3.24 | ||
Total | 756 | 154 | 67,39,223 |
Rajasthan[edit]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 2,052,383 | 39.98 | 88 | –31 | |
Swatantra Party | 878,056 | 17.11 | 36 | New | |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 469,497 | 9.15 | 15 | +9 | |
Communist Party of India | 276,972 | 5.40 | 5 | +4 | |
Socialist Party (India) | 189,147 | 3.68 | 5 | New | |
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad | 102,988 | 2.01 | 3 | –14 | |
Praja Socialist Party | 74,858 | 1.46 | 2 | 0 | |
Hindu Mahasabha | 17,481 | 0.34 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 1,071,581 | 20.88 | 22 | –10 | |
Total | 5,132,963 | 100.00 | 176 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 5,132,963 | 78.28 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,424,303 | 21.72 | |||
Total votes | 6,557,266 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 10,327,596 | 63.49 | |||
Source: ECI[4] |
Uttar Pradesh[edit]
West Bengal[edit]
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % |
Indian National Congress | 252 | 157 | 4.522,476 | 47.29% |
Communist Party of India | 145 | 50 | 2,386,834 | 24.96% |
Praja Socialist Party | 87 | 5 | 477,254 | 4.99% |
All India Forward Bloc | 34 | 13 | 441,098 | 4.06% |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 17 | 9 | 245,261 | 2.56% |
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha | 25 | 0 | 76,138 | 0.80% |
Socialist Unity Centre of India | 11 | 0 | 69,844 | 0.73% |
Lok Sewak Sangh | 11 | 4 | 68,583 | 0.72% |
Sanjukta Biplabi Parisha | 16 | 1 | 58,806 | 0.62% |
Swatantra Party | 24 | 0 | 55,447 | 0.58% |
Bharatiya Jana Sangh | 25 | 0 | 43,483 | 0.45% |
All India Gorkha League | 4 | 2 | 38,076 | 0.40% |
Workers Party of India | 8 | 0 | 26,913 | 0.24% |
Socialist Party | 7 | 0 | 2,663 | 0.03% |
Independents | 295 | 11 | 1,050,515 | 10.98% |
Total: | 935 | 252 | 10,469,803 |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Election results, 1962".
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1962 to the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ↑ "List of Polling Booth For Punjab Lok Sabha Elections 1962". www.elections.in.
- ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1962 to the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL