1962 elections in India

Legislative Assembly elections Andhra Pradesh

PARTY SEATSVOTES POLLEDVOTE % IN NATIONAL PARTIES CONTESTED WON FDVOTES %SEATSCPI136518228276719.53%40.58%INC3001771552335947.25%47.25%JS700691217211.04%4.17%PSP604347320.30%16.17%SOC15211708780.61%12.99%SWA1411970121598710.40%21.81%REP180170.40%6.43%IND3025117420.48%32.75%Total988300354Source:ECI

Assam

Bihar

S. No. Abbreviation PartySeats contestedSeats won1 SWA Swatantra Party259502 SOC Socialist Party of India13273 PSP Praja Socialist Party199294 JS Jan Sangh7535 INC Indian National Congress3181856 CPI Communist Party of India84127 RRP Ram Rajya Parishad1708 JP Jharkhand Party75209 HMS Hindu Mahasabha3010 IND Independent36712

Gujarat

Jammu and Kashmir

Madhya Pradesh

Madras

PartyPopular VoteVote %Seats contestedSeats wonChange Indian National Congress 5,848,974 46.14% 206 139 -12 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 Total12,676,346100% —206 —

Maharashtra

Political PartyNo. of candidatesNo. of electedVotes polledVotes (%)Indian National Congress2642155,617,34751.22%Peasants and Workers Party of India7915818,8017.47%Praja Socialist Party1019792,7557.23%Communist Party of India566647,3905.90%Republican Party of India663589,6535.38%Socialist14154,7640.50%Independents437151,836,09516.74%

Mysore

|- align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"| !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Contestants !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats won !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Vote share !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Net change |-style="background: #90EE90;" | |align="left"|Indian National Congress||208||138|| 12||3,164,811||50.22%|| 1.80

|align="left"|Praja Socialist Party||84||20|| 2||887,363||14.08%|| 0.02

|align="left"|Swatantra Party||59||9||||450,713 ||7.15%||

|align="left"|Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti||6||6||||136878||2.17%||

|align="left"|Lok Sewak Sangh||17||4||||159,545||2.53%||

|align="left"|Independents||||27|| 9||1,091,011||17.31%||N/A

|align="left"|Total||||208||||||||

Punjab

Result of Punjab Legislative Assembly election 1962PartyContestantsSeats wonPopular vote%Indian National Congress1549029,46,20943.72Shiromani Akali Dal46167,99,92511.87Communist Party of India47124,78,3337.10Bharatiya Jana Sangh8086,55,1609.72Socialist Party8493,8011.39Swatantra Party4232,61,2763.88Haryana Lok Samiti831,29,0361.91Independents3301811,57,11317.17Others4102,18,3703.24Total75615467,39,223

Rajasthan

Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal

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 Party179245,2612.56% Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha 25 0 76,138 0.80% Socialist Unity Centre of India11069,8440.73% Lok Sewak Sangh11468,5830.72% Sanjukta Biplabi Parisha16158,8060.62% Swatantra Party24055,4470.58% Bharatiya Jana Sangh 25 0 43,483 0.45% All India Gorkha League4238,0760.40% Workers Party of India8026,9130.24% Socialist Party702,6630.03% Independents 295 11 1,050,515 10.98% Total: 935 252 10,469,803 Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WEST BENGAL

References

External links

Election Commission of India