Constituency
47. Sonepur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-SONEPUR
CPI 38.3%won by 2.2%INC 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 2.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 30.4% to 38.3% of the vote here (+8.0%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.5% of the vote between them, up from 61.8% — 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
39,248
Margin
862
2.20%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1SHEO BACHAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI15,04738.3%
- 2SULAGAN PRASAD YADAVIndian National Congress · INC14,18536.1%
- 3RAM BINOD SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA5,87715.0%
- 4RAMANUJ RAIIndependent · IND1,9224.9%
- 5ASHARFI PRASADSOC · SOC1,2403.2%
- 6RAM NANDAN SINGHIndependent · IND9772.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- −2.6%
- CPI share
- 30.4% → 38.3%
- INC share
- 25.6% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- — → —