Constituency
7. Chanpatia
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-CHANPATIA
INC 61.1%won by 35.9%IND 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 67.6% to 35.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
25,040
Margin
8,981
35.87%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1PRAMOD KUMAR MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC15,29361.1%
- 2PAWAN KUMAR MISHRAIndependent · IND6,31225.2%
- 3NAGINA RAISwatantra Party · SWA3,43513.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −47.9%
- INC share
- 83.8% → 61.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- — → —