Constituency
40. Masarakh South
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-MASARAKH-SOUTH
INC 64.9%won by 29.7%PSP 35.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.6% to 29.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 69.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
19,645
Margin
5,843
29.74%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1RAJ KUMARI DEVIIndian National Congress · INC12,74464.9%
- 2RAM SEWAK SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP6,90135.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- +25.1%
- INC share
- 37.1% → 64.9%
- PSP share
- 32.5% → 35.1%
- Turnout
- — → —