Constituency
17. Pipra
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-PIPRA
INC 57.6%won by 35.3%IND 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 35.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.1% to 57.6% of the vote here (+10.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 22.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.9% 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
22,710
Margin
8,015
35.29%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SATYADEO PRASAD CHAUDHARIIndian National Congress · INC13,08057.6%
- 2GANGA NATH MISHRAIndependent · IND5,06522.3%
- 3GAYA PRASADIndependent · IND1,3936.1%
- 4AMBIKA KANT SINGHIndependent · IND1,3816.1%
- 5BANSHRAKSHAN MISHRAIndependent · IND1,2705.6%
- 6BALIRAM PANDEYIndependent · IND5212.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −11.8%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 57.6%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 22.3%
- Turnout
- — → —