Constituency
46. Parsa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-PARSA
INC 50.5%won by 12.7%PSP 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.1% to 12.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.3% 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
41,825
Margin
5,325
12.73%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DAROGA PRASAD RAIIndian National Congress · INC21,12250.5%
- 2MAHENDAR SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP15,79737.8%
- 3RAM PATI DASSIndependent · IND3,7008.8%
- 4JAIROPAN SINGHRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP1,2062.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −9.4%
- INC share
- 61.1% → 50.5%
- PSP share
- 38.9% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —