Constituency
22. Barauli
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BARAULI
INC 62.2%won by 39.0%SWA 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.3% to 39.0%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.3% of the vote between them, up from 78.2% — 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
38,683
Margin
15,101
39.04%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1GORAKH RAIIndian National Congress · INC24,05462.2%
- 2HAZARI SAHSwatantra Party · SWA8,95323.1%
- 3BIJUL SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI5,10013.2%
- 4SUDIST NARAYAN YADAVSOC · SOC5761.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −0.2%
- INC share
- 39.3% → 62.2%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —