Constituency
16. Kesaria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-KESARIA
CPI 57.8%won by 20.9%INC 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 20.9%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 49.6% to 57.8% of the vote here (+8.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 94.7% 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
28,956
Margin
6,039
20.86%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1PITAMBAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI16,73357.8%
- 2PRABHAWATI GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC10,69436.9%
- 3PARAS NATH SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA1,5295.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +21.6%
- CPI share
- 49.6% → 57.8%
- INC share
- 50.4% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- — → —