Constituency
4. Shikarpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-SHIKARPUR
INC 57.6%won by 15.2%SWA 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.3% to 57.6% of the vote here (+13.3%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 42.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
27,968
Margin
4,258
15.22%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1UMESH PRASAD VERMAIndian National Congress · INC16,11357.6%
- 2LAKSHMAN PRASADSwatantra Party · SWA11,85542.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SWA swing
- −29.1%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 57.6%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- — → —