Constituency
160. Gopalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-GOPALPUR
INC 57.7%won by 22.6%CPI 35.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.8% to 57.7% of the vote here (+27.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.7% of the vote between them, up from 66.9% — 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
36,114
Margin
8,167
22.61%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1MAYA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC20,83157.7%
- 2MANIRAM SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI12,66435.1%
- 3MUNILAL SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA2,6197.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +29.9%
- INC share
- 29.8% → 57.7%
- CPI share
- 37.1% → 35.1%
- Turnout
- — → —