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1962 Indian general election

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Field	Value
country	India
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1957 Indian general election
previous_year	1957
next_election	1967 Indian general election
next_year	1967
election_date	19–25 February 1962
seats_for_election	494 of the 508 seats in the Lok Sabha
majority_seats	248
registered	216,361,569
turnout	55.42% ( 9.98 pp)
image1
leader1	Jawaharlal Nehru
party1	Indian National Congress
last_election1	47.78%, 371 seats
seats1	361
seat_change1	10
popular_vote1	51,509,084
percentage1	44.72%
swing1	3.06pp
image2
leader2	Shripad Amrit Dange
party2	Communist Party of India
last_election2	8.92%, 27 seats
seats2	29
seat_change2	2
popular_vote2	11,450,037
percentage2	9.94%
swing2	1.02pp
image3
leader3	C. Rajagopalachari
party3	Swatantra Party
last_election3	New
seats3	18
seat_change3	New
popular_vote3	9,085,252
percentage3	7.89%
swing3	New
image4
leader4	Deendayal Upadhyaya
party4	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
last_election4	5.97%, 4 seats
seats4	14
seat_change4	10
popular_vote4	7,415,170
percentage4	6.44%
swing4	0.47pp
image5
leader5	Jayaprakash Narayan
party5	Praja Socialist Party
seats5	12
popular_vote5	7,848,345
percentage5	6.81%
swing5	3.60pp
last_election5	10.41%, 19 seats
seat_change5	7
map_image	Wahlergebnisse in Indien 1962.svg
map_caption	Results by constituency
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
before_election	Jawaharlal Nehru
before_party	Indian National Congress
after_election	Jawaharlal Nehru
after_party	Indian National Congress
outgoing_members	List of members of the 2nd Lok Sabha
elected_members	List of members of the 3rd Lok Sabha

General elections were held in India between 19 and 25 February 1962 to elect members of the third Lok Sabha. Unlike the previous two elections, each constituency elected a single member.

Jawaharlal Nehru won another landslide victory in his third and final election campaign. The Indian National Congress received 44.7% of the vote and won 361 of the 494 elected seats. This was only slightly lower than in the previous two elections and they still held over 70% of the seats in the Lok Sabha.

Results

State wise

Andhra Pradesh

Party	Seats	Popular vote	Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%
	Indian National Congress	43	34	3	57,11,263	47.96%	3.51%
	Communist Party of India	20	7	5	25,05,619	21.04%	9.03%
	Swatantra Party	28	1	1	17,75,495	14.91%	New
	Independents	44	1	1	16,53,436	13.89%	5.37%
Total	43		1,19,08,021

Assam

Party	Seats	Popular vote	Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%
	Indian National Congress	12	9	4	57,11,263	45.16%	6.52%
	Praja Socialist Party	8	2		4,78,099	19.16%	0.8%
	All Party Hill Leaders Conference	1	1	New	91,850	3.68%	New
	Communist Party of India	4	0	5	1,76,098	7.06%	3.19%
	Independents	13	0	1	5,16,793	20.71%	2.6%
Total	12		24,95,311

Bihar

Party	Seats	Popular vote	Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%
	Indian National Congress	53	39	2	43,65,148	43.89%	0.58%
	Praja Socialist Party	32	2		12,62,106	12.69%	8.95%
	Swatantra Party	43	7	New	18,11.170	18.21%	New
	Communist Party of India	16	1	5	6,34,516	6.38%	1.36%
	Independents	34	0	1	4,93,330	4.96%	10.88%
Total	53		99,46,244

Gujarat

Party	Seats	Popular vote	Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%
	Indian National Congress	22	16	-	27,76,327	52.56%	-
	Swatantra Party	14	4	-	13,20,405	25.0%	-
	Praja Socialist Party	6	1	-	3,74,813	7.1%	-
	Nutan Maha Gujarat Janata Parishad	3	1	-	1,95,812	3.71%	-
	Independents	14	0	-	4,69,020	8.88%	-
Total	22		52,82,558

Gujarat was formed a new state in 1961 after separation from Bombay state.

Madras

Party	Seats	Popular vote	Contested	Won	+/−	Votes	%
	Indian National Congress	41	31		56,23,013	45.26	1.26%
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	18	7	7	23,15,610	18.64	New
	Communist Party of India	14	2		12,72,313	10.24	0.18%
	Swatantra Party	16	0	New	13,00,526	10.47	New
	Independents	46	0	8	9,33,150	7.51	32.26%
Total	41		1,24,24,036

By-elections

In 1963 a by-election was held for the Bilaspur Lok Sabha seat, which was at the time in Madhya Pradesh. The by-election was won by the Indian National Congress candidate Chandrabhan Singh, with votes, against M. L. Shukla of Jana Sangh with votes. This by-election was needed because the original election for this seat was declared void by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, which judged that the nomination papers of one of the candidates, Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, "was improperly and illegally rejected by the Returning Officer".

References

"Statistical Report On General Elections, 1962 To The Third Lok Sabha". Election Commission of India.
"Details of Bye Elections from 1952 to 1995". ECI, New Delhi.
(22 April 1963). "Satya Prakash vs Bashir Ahmed Qureshi".

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