Constituency
56. Paru
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-PARU
INC 56.6%won by 28.8%SWA 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.7% to 28.8%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 27.8% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.4% of the vote between them, up from 56.6% — 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
30,053
Margin
8,659
28.81%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDU RAMIndian National Congress · INC17,01656.6%
- 2SHIVANANDAN RAMSwatantra Party · SWA8,35727.8%
- 3MAHABIR RAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,76912.5%
- 4MOHAN LALLJS · JS9113.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −0.3%
- INC share
- 29.2% → 56.6%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —