Indian general election, 1962

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19–25 February 1962

1967 →

All 494 seats in the Lok Sabha
248 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Jawaharlal Nehru	Shripat Amrit Dange
Party	INC	CPI
Leader's seat	Phulpur	Bombay City Central South
Seats won	361	29
Seat change	10	2
Percentage	44.72%	9.94%
Swing	3.06%	1.02%

Prime Minister before election

Jawaharlal Nehru
INC

Subsequent Prime Minister

Jawaharlal Nehru
INC

The Indian general election of 1962 elected the 3rd Lok Sabha of India and was held from 19 to 25 February. Unlike the previous two elections but as with all subsequent elections, each constituency elected a single member.

Jawaharlal Nehru won another landslide victory in his third and final election campaign. The Indian National Congress took 44.7% of the vote and won 361 of the 494 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.

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