Constituency
101. Tajpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-TAJPUR
PSP 66.7%won by 46.7%INC 20.0%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.4% to 46.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.7% between them, down from 97.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatPraja Socialist Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
38,867
Margin
18,157
46.72%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1KARPOORI THAKURPraja Socialist Party · PSP25,92466.7%
- 2RAMRUPRASAD RAIIndian National Congress · INC7,76720.0%
- 3MOHAMMAD MOBINSwatantra Party · SWA3,4508.9%
- 4RAMRUP PASWANSOC · SOC1,7264.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- +13.3%
- PSP share
- 65.3% → 66.7%
- INC share
- 31.9% → 20.0%
- Turnout
- — → —