Constituency
62. Muzaffarpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-MUZAFFARPUR
INC 36.9%won by 9.0%CPI 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.1% to 36.9% of the vote here (−9.2%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 27.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.7% 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
38,586
Margin
3,482
9.02%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1DEVANANDAN SAHAYAIndian National Congress · INC14,23336.9%
- 2RAMDEO SHARMACommunist Party of India · CPI10,75127.9%
- 3KESHARI PRASAD SINHAJS · JS6,64617.2%
- 4KESHAV PRASAD AGARWALIndependent · IND2,1965.7%
- 5RAMDEO OJHASwatantra Party · SWA1,6344.2%
- 6DURGA PRASAD VERMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,5754.1%
- 7KANHAIYA SHARANIndependent · IND9592.5%
- 8KISHORI DEVIRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP3430.9%
- 9PASHUPATI SHARANIndependent · IND2490.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −37.1%
- INC share
- 46.1% → 36.9%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —