Constituency
59. Kanti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-KANTI
INC 41.1%won by 9.7%SWA 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 9.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.5% 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
27,929
Margin
2,714
9.72%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1YAMUNA PRASAD TRIPATHYIndian National Congress · INC11,48541.1%
- 2HARIHAR PRASAD SHAHISwatantra Party · SWA8,77131.4%
- 3NAGENDRA SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,53719.8%
- 4JAGDISH PRASAD SAHUJS · JS2,1367.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −41.2%
- INC share
- 50.9% → 41.1%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —