Constituency
78. Benipatti West
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BENIPATTI-WEST
CPI 42.1%won by 5.5%INC 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
40,159
Margin
2,196
5.47%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1TEJ NARAIN JHACommunist Party of India · CPI16,90342.1%
- 2CHHOTE PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC14,70736.6%
- 3JANG BAHADUR THAKURSwatantra Party · SWA4,60311.5%
- 4SIRAJUL HAQUEIndependent · IND2,1435.3%
- 5BHARATH PRASAD GUPTAPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,8034.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +16.1%
- CPI share
- 44.7% → 42.1%
- INC share
- 55.3% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —