Constituency
163. Amarpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-AMARPUR
INC 54.4%won by 28.1%JS 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.6% to 28.1%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.7% of the vote between them, up from 63.4% — 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
23,568
Margin
6,620
28.09%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHITAL PRASAD BHAGATIndian National Congress · INC12,82354.4%
- 2MAHESHWARI PRASAD KAPRIJS · JS6,20326.3%
- 3GOBIND PRASAD JHAIndependent · IND2,81511.9%
- 4RADHEY PRASAD SINGHSOC · SOC1,7277.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −19.9%
- INC share
- 48.0% → 54.4%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —