Constituency
159. Bhagalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BHAGALPUR
INC 51.0%won by 26.8%JS 24.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.1% to 26.8%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 24.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.3% of the vote between them, up from 68.9% — 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
33,685
Margin
9,030
26.81%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SATYENDRA NARAYAN AGARWALIndian National Congress · INC17,19051.0%
- 2SITARAM KISHOREPURIAJS · JS8,16024.2%
- 3AJIT KUMAR MITRACommunist Party of India · CPI4,83114.3%
- 4KASIM HOSSAINSwatantra Party · SWA2,1056.2%
- 5HARI SHANKAR SAHAYPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,3994.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −16.7%
- INC share
- 43.5% → 51.0%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 24.2%
- Turnout
- — → —