Constituency
8. Bettiah
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BETTIAH
INC 56.0%won by 32.6%JS 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.6% to 32.6%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 23.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.5% of the vote between them, up from 72.7% — 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
21,696
Margin
7,069
32.58%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1JAY NARAYAN PRASADIndian National Congress · INC12,15456.0%
- 2MADAN LAL SINGHANIAJS · JS5,08523.4%
- 3ABDUL KHAIRPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,45720.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −4.1%
- INC share
- 36.7% → 56.0%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- — → —