Constituency
109. Kishanpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-KISHANPUR
INC 41.1%won by 4.2%SOC 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.7% to 4.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSOC (SOC) finished second with 36.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.0% between them, down from 89.6% — 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
46,769
Margin
1,945
4.16%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BAIDYANATH MEHTAIndian National Congress · INC19,21541.1%
- 2BINAYAK PRASAD YADAVSOC · SOC17,27036.9%
- 3RAMJEE MANDALSwatantra Party · SWA6,16213.2%
- 4NAYEEMUDDINPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,1228.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOC swing
- −55.5%
- INC share
- 59.7% → 41.1%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- — → —