Constituency
68. Belsand
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BELSAND
PSP 40.2%won by 8.6%SWA 31.5%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.8% to 8.6%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 31.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.7% of the vote between them, up from 50.6% — 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
33,732
Margin
2,908
8.62%
Candidates
3 contested · winner PSP- 1RAMANAND SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP13,54540.2%
- 2JAMUNA PRASAD SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA10,63731.5%
- 3GADADHAR PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC9,55028.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–SWA swing
- −23.1%
- PSP share
- 31.7% → 40.2%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 31.5%
- Turnout
- — → —