Results/Margins
Results/Margins
ECI results
Analysis · competitiveness
How close was it?
Lok Sabha nationally, 1962
Closest contest
0.0%
Outer Manipur · SOCIAL
Biggest landslide
70.1%
Bhanjanagar · INC
Decided by under 1%
22
of 492 contests
Decided by under 5%
108
22.0% of contests
Contests
492
1962 · national
[01]Closest contests
- 0.0%
Outer ManipurSocialistRishang · Manipur
- 0.0%
KendraparaPraja Socialist PartySurendranath Dwivedy · Odisha
- 0.14%
Bara BankiSocialistRam Sewak Yadav · Uttar Pradesh
- 0.2%
KozhikodeMuslim LeagueC. H. Muhammed Koya · Kerala
- 0.25%
GondaIndian National CongressRam Ratan Gupta · Uttar Pradesh
- 0.3%
WarrangalIndian National CongressBakar Ali Mirza · Andhra Pradesh
- 0.34%
MainpuriIndian National CongressBadshah Gupta · Uttar Pradesh
- 0.44%
EluruCommunist Party of IndiaViramachaneni Vimaladevi · Andhra Pradesh
- 0.5%
JorhatPraja Socialist PartyRajendra Nath Baruah · Assam
- 0.6%
LudhianaAkali DalKapur Singh · Punjab
[02]Biggest landslides
- 70.1%
BhanjanagarIndian National CongressMohan Nayak · Odisha
- 65.23%
GwaliorIndian National CongressVijaya Raje Scindia · Madhya Pradesh
- 61.3%
JaipurSwatantra PartyGayatri Devi W/o Sawai Mansingh · Rajasthan
- 58.62%
Dharwar NorthIndian National CongressSarojini Bindurao Mahishi · Karnataka
- 52.7%
BarodaIndian National CongressShrimant Maharaja Fatehsinhrao Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad · Gujarat
- 51.9%
MahasuIndian National CongressVirbhadra Singh · Himachal Pradesh
- 47.5%
KaradIndian National CongressDajisaheb Ramrao Chavan · Maharashtra
- 47.15%
Bijapur SouthIndian National CongressSanganagouda Basanagouda Patil · Karnataka
- 46.7%
KoraputIndian National CongressUlaka Ramachandra · Odisha
- 46.6%
MirajIndian National CongressVijayhsinhrao Ramrao Dafle · Maharashtra
[03]Seats by winning margin
Under 1%
224.5%
1-5%
8617.5%
5-10%
10120.5%
10-20%
13828.0%
20%+
14529.5%
SourceWinning margins from Election Commission constituency-wise results, 1962 Lok Sabha · margins are winner minus runner-up as a share of votes polled