Constituency
135. Barari
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BARARI
INC 45.6%won by 29.5%PSP 16.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.9% to 29.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.8% between them, down from 69.9% — 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
31,003
Margin
9,145
29.50%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1BASUDEO PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC14,14945.6%
- 2GUMANI YADAVPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,00416.1%
- 3MOHAMMAD HUSSAINIndependent · IND3,70912.0%
- 4WAKIL PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI2,6348.5%
- 5GANGADHAR JHASwatantra Party · SWA1,7885.8%
- 6CHAMAKLALSOC · SOC1,6635.4%
- 7SHREE RAM SINGHIndependent · IND1,1003.5%
- 8BISHWANATH BHAGATJS · JS9563.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −9.7%
- INC share
- 53.4% → 45.6%
- PSP share
- 14.2% → 16.1%
- Turnout
- — → —