1962 Indian general election

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1962 Indian general election
← 1957 19–25 February 1962 1967 →
494 of the 508 seats in the Lok Sabha[lower-alpha 1]
248 seats needed for a majority
Registered216,361,569
Turnout55.42% (Increase 9.98 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Jawaharlal Nehru Shripad Amrit Dange C. Rajagopalachari
Party INC CPI Swatantra Party
Last election 47.78%, 371 seats 8.92%, 27 seats New
Seats won 361 29 18
Seat change Decrease 10 Increase 2 New
Popular vote 51,509,084 11,450,037 9,085,252
Percentage 44.72% 9.94% 7.89%
Swing Decrease 3.06pp Increase 1.02pp New
  Fourth party Fifth party
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Leader Deendayal Upadhyaya Jayaprakash Narayan
Party Bharatiya Jana Sangh Praja Socialist Party
Last election 5.97%, 4 seats 10.41%, 19 seats
Seats won 14 12
Seat change Increase 10 Decrease 7
Popular vote 7,415,170 7,848,345
Percentage 6.44% 6.81%
Swing Increase 0.47pp Decrease 3.60pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election

Jawaharlal Nehru
INC

Prime Minister after election

Jawaharlal Nehru
INC

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.[1]

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[edit | edit source]

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Indian National Congress51,509,08444.72361–10
Communist Party of India11,450,0379.9429+2
Swatantra Party9,085,2527.8918New
Praja Socialist Party7,848,3456.8112–7
Bharatiya Jana Sangh7,415,1706.4414+10
Republican Party of India3,255,9852.833New
Socialist Party3,099,3972.696New
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam2,315,6102.017New
Shiromani Akali Dal829,1290.723New
All India Forward Bloc826,5880.7220
Hindu Mahasabha747,8610.6510
Peasants and Workers Party of India703,5820.610–4
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad688,9900.602+2
Jharkhand Party467,3380.413–3
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP)451,7170.392+2
Indian Union Muslim League417,7610.362New
All India Ganatantra Parishad342,9700.304–3
Lok Sewak Sangh281,7550.242New
Nutan Maha Gujarat Janata Parishad195,8120.171New
Haryana Lok Samiti118,6670.101New
Tamil National Party92,3890.080New
All Party Hill Leaders Conference91,8500.081New
Tamilnad Socialist Labour Party80,2270.070New
Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCP)60,8130.050New
Gorkha League46,1270.040New
Eastern Indian Tribal Union12,5740.010New
We Tamil11,3720.010New
Independents12,722,48811.0520–22
Appointed members[lower-alpha 2]14+3
Total115,168,890100.00508+3
Valid votes115,168,89096.05
Invalid/blank votes4,735,3943.95
Total votes119,904,284100.00
Registered voters/turnout216,361,56955.42
  1. ↑ 14 members were appointed, including six representing Jammu and Kashmir, two representing Anglo-Indians, one representing the Amindive, Laccadive and Minicoy Islands, one representing the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, one representing Dadra and Nagar Haveli, one representing Goa, Daman and Diu, one representing the North-East Frontier Agency and one representing the Tuensang and Naga Hills districts in Nagaland.
  2. ↑ Six representing Jammu and Kashmir, two representing Anglo-Indians, one representing the Amindive, Laccadive and Minicoy Islands, one representing the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, one representing Dadra and Nagar Haveli, one representing Goa, Daman and Diu, one representing the North-East Frontier Agency and one representing the Tuensang and Naga Hills districts in Nagaland.

State wise[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh[edit | edit source]

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

Assam[edit | edit source]

Party Seats Popular vote
Contested Won +/− Votes % ±pp
Indian National Congress 12 9 Decrease 4 57,11,263 45.16% Decrease 6.52%
Praja Socialist Party 8 2 Template:No change 4,78,099 19.16% Decrease 0.8%
All Party Hill Leaders Conference 1 1 New 91,850 3.68% New
Communist Party of India 4 0 Increase 5 1,76,098 7.06% Decrease 3.19%
Independents 13 0 Decrease 1 5,16,793 20.71% Increase 2.6%
Total 12 24,95,311

Bihar[edit | edit source]

Party Seats Popular vote
Contested Won +/− Votes % ±pp
Indian National Congress 53 39 Decrease 2 43,65,148 43.89% Decrease 0.58%
Praja Socialist Party 32 2 Template:No change 12,62,106 12.69% Decrease 8.95%
Swatantra Party 43 7 New 18,11.170 18.21% New
Communist Party of India 16 1 Increase 5 6,34,516 6.38% Increase 1.36%
Independents 34 0 Decrease 1 4,93,330 4.96% Decrease 10.88%
Total 53 99,46,244

Gujarat[edit | edit source]

Party Seats Popular vote
Contested Won +/− Votes % ±pp
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[edit | edit source]

Party Seats Popular vote
Contested Won +/− Votes % ±pp
Indian National Congress 41 31 Error creating thumbnail: File missing 56,23,013 45.26 Decrease1.26%
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 18 7 Increase7 23,15,610 18.64 New
Communist Party of India 14 2 Error creating thumbnail: File missing 12,72,313 10.24 Increase0.18%
Swatantra Party 16 0 New 13,00,526 10.47 New
Independents 46 0 Decrease8 9,33,150 7.51 Decrease32.26%
Total 41 1,24,24,036

By-elections[edit | edit source]

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 86,229 votes, against M. L. Shukla of Jana Sangh with 54,156 votes.[2] 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".[3]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Statistical Report On General Elections, 1962 To The Third Lok Sabha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Details of Bye Elections from 1952 to 1995". ECI, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 19 July 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  3. ↑ P. Dixit; K. Pandey (22 April 1963). "Satya Prakash vs Bashir Ahmed Qureshi". Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021. our conclusion is that the respondent's nomination was improperly and illegally rejected by the Returning Officer and the Election Tribunal rightly declared the appellant's election as void.
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