Constituency
76. Pupri South
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-PUPRI-SOUTH
PSP 46.1%won by 17.9%INC 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.1% to 17.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.2% 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
28,682
Margin
5,147
17.95%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PSP- 1DAVENDRA JHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP13,20946.1%
- 2ABDUL RASHID ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC8,06228.1%
- 3RAM BHAROS SHARMASwatantra Party · SWA4,65216.2%
- 4IZHARULSOC · SOC1,6845.9%
- 5INDRASHEKHAR MISHRAIndependent · IND1,0753.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- +11.8%
- PSP share
- 53.1% → 46.1%
- INC share
- 46.9% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- — → —