Constituency
74. Sursand
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-SURSAND
INC 54.1%won by 29.0%SWA 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.6% to 29.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 25.1% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.2% between them, down from 93.0% — 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
46,109
Margin
13,366
28.99%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1PRATIBHA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC24,93554.1%
- 2RAM CHARITRA RAI YADAVSwatantra Party · SWA11,56925.1%
- 3MADHVENDRA PRATAP SAHIIndependent · IND4,76610.3%
- 4AYUB MOHMADIndependent · IND2,4585.3%
- 5SIABHADRA PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,8374.0%
- 6YOGENDRA TIWARYSOC · SOC5441.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −36.9%
- INC share
- 65.8% → 54.1%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- — → —