Constituency
117. Kishanganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-KISHANGANJ
INC 51.8%won by 29.4%SWA 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 47.3% to 29.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.3% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
19,765
Margin
5,809
29.39%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1YASHODA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC10,24451.8%
- 2NARAYAN DARBEYSwatantra Party · SWA4,43522.4%
- 3NETI RISHIDEOCommunist Party of India · CPI2,13210.8%
- 4SUKHRAM PASWANSOC · SOC1,1495.8%
- 5DILESHWAR PASWANPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,0805.5%
- 6SHIBNANDAN MANDALIndependent · IND3711.9%
- 7BHAGWAT CHAMARIndependent · IND3541.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −44.3%
- INC share
- 73.7% → 51.8%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- — → —