Constituency
100. Samastipur West
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-SAMASTIPUR-WEST
INC 45.0%won by 12.8%PSP 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 12.8%.
- 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
28,865
Margin
3,682
12.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1TEJ NARAIN ISHWARIndian National Congress · INC12,98845.0%
- 2SANT LAL MAHTOPraja Socialist Party · PSP9,30632.2%
- 3SRIKANT JHASwatantra Party · SWA3,71912.9%
- 4DEO NARAIN RAIJS · JS2,1307.4%
- 5RAMCHANDRA SINGHSOC · SOC7222.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- +7.8%
- INC share
- 39.3% → 45.0%
- PSP share
- 34.4% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —