Constituency
170. Jamui
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-JAMUI
INC 47.9%won by 17.3%CPI 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.0% to 17.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.6% of the vote between them, up from 42.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
25,147
Margin
4,342
17.27%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1GURU RAM DASIndian National Congress · INC12,05647.9%
- 2BHOLA MANJHICommunist Party of India · CPI7,71430.7%
- 3ANDHI MANJHIPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,78719.0%
- 4RAGHUNATH RABIDASSwatantra Party · SWA5902.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +13.3%
- INC share
- 23.3% → 47.9%
- CPI share
- 19.3% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —