1962 Indian general election

[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.

In 1963 a by-election was held for the Bilaspur Lok Sabha seat, which was at the time in Madhya Pradesh.

[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".