Election
Constituency

156. Pirpainti

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1962

BR-PIRPAINTI

INC 37.0%won by 3.8%CPI 33.2%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.8% to 3.8%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.2% of the vote between them, up from 58.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
35,012
Margin
1,320
3.77%

Candidates

8 contested · winner INC
  1. 1BAIKUNTH RAMIndian National Congress · INC12,95537.0%
  2. 2AMBIKA PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI11,63533.2%
  3. 3SHIVA NARAYAN RAMSwatantra Party · SWA3,4729.9%
  4. 4NAND KISHORE YADAVPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,6387.5%
  5. 5CHANDRADHAR PRASAD NANDKULIYARSOC · SOC1,5484.4%
  6. 6NAIMIndependent · IND1,5184.3%
  7. 7RADHA PRASAD MANDALIndependent · IND6571.9%
  8. 8RAGHUBANS MANI OJHAJS · JS5891.7%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPI swing
−7.0%
INC share
34.8% → 37.0%
CPI share
24.0% → 33.2%
Turnout
— → —
155. Mahagama157. Colgong
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