Constituency
115. Saharsa
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-SAHARSA
PSP 60.9%won by 44.3%INC 16.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 44.3%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 33.5% to 60.9% of the vote here (+27.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.4% of the vote between them, up from 68.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
44,037
Margin
19,524
44.34%
Candidates
5 contested · winner PSP- 1RAMESH JHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP26,81060.9%
- 2VISHWESHWARI DEVIIndian National Congress · INC7,28616.5%
- 3BHUBNESHWAR JHASwatantra Party · SWA5,19411.8%
- 4JAGDISH NARAYAN MANDALIndependent · IND4,1419.4%
- 5DASHRATH SINGHIndependent · IND6061.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +45.5%
- PSP share
- 33.5% → 60.9%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 16.5%
- Turnout
- — → —