Constituency
13. Dhaka
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-DHAKA
CPI 41.1%won by 10.2%SWA 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 10.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 6.2% to 41.1% of the vote here (+34.8%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.9% between them, down from 77.7% — 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
26,613
Margin
2,714
10.20%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1NEK MAHAMADCommunist Party of India · CPI10,92841.1%
- 2GAJADHAR SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA8,21430.9%
- 3MASOODUR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC6,78725.5%
- 4DAROGA PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP6842.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–SWA swing
- +4.0%
- CPI share
- 6.2% → 41.1%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —