Constituency
124. Forbesganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-FORBESGANJ
PSP 48.3%won by 11.7%INC 36.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 11.7%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 4.3% to 48.3% of the vote here (+44.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.0% of the vote between them, up from 46.4% — 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
40,412
Margin
4,715
11.67%
Candidates
4 contested · winner PSP- 1SARYU MISHRAPraja Socialist Party · PSP19,53748.3%
- 2SHITAL PRASAD GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC14,82236.7%
- 3BASANT SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA3,0777.6%
- 4BISHWANATH AGRAWALJS · JS2,9767.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–INC swing
- +30.9%
- PSP share
- 4.3% → 48.3%
- INC share
- 23.6% → 36.7%
- Turnout
- — → —