Constituency
161. Bihpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BIHPUR
INC 41.8%won by 12.3%JS 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 12.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.8% to 41.8% of the vote here (+4.0%).
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 29.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.3% between them, down from 77.3% — 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
39,491
Margin
4,859
12.30%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SUKDEO CHOUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC16,51141.8%
- 2YUDHISTHIR MANDALJS · JS11,65229.5%
- 3PRABHU NARAIN ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI8,41521.3%
- 4BALA DASSOC · SOC2,9137.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JS swing
- −25.5%
- INC share
- 37.8% → 41.8%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —