Constituency
38. Baikunthpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BAIKUNTHPUR
INC 36.7%won by 7.9%SWA 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 21.0% to 36.7% of the vote here (+15.7%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 28.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.6% of the vote between them, up from 55.3% — 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
27,085
Margin
2,133
7.88%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCSince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SWA swing
- −13.1%
- INC share
- 21.0% → 36.7%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —