Constituency
134. Katihar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-KATIHAR
INC 41.3%won by 21.5%JS 19.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.2% to 21.5%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 19.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Multi-cornered6 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
32,605
Margin
6,996
21.46%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SUKDEO NARAIN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC13,48041.3%
- 2JAGBANDHU ADHIKARIJS · JS6,48419.9%
- 3BASUDEO SHARMAIndependent · IND4,08112.5%
- 4ZAHOOR ALAMPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,7548.4%
- 5BIMAL KUMAR BANERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI2,7398.4%
- 6STAYANARAIN SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA2,4497.5%
- 7GAURI SHANKER POORAN MALIndependent · IND3401.0%
- 8SHIVAJI SINGHSOC · SOC2780.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −9.4%
- INC share
- 30.8% → 41.3%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 19.9%
- Turnout
- — → —