Constituency

125. Araria

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1962

BR-ARARIA

IND 38.6%won by 12.5%SWA 26.0%

What changed here

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The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 12.5%.

IND vote shareIND went from 8.5% to 38.6% of the vote here (+30.0%).
New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.6% between them, down from 82.3% — 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

39,544

Margin

4,945

12.51%

4 contested · winner IND

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