Constituency
177. Kharagpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-KHARAGPUR
INC 56.2%won by 19.3%PSP 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.1% to 19.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.1% of the vote between them, up from 77.4% — 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
37,110
Margin
7,170
19.32%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1NANDKUMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC20,86256.2%
- 2DUKH MOHAN PATHAKPraja Socialist Party · PSP13,69236.9%
- 3SHARWAN KUMAR YADAVIndependent · IND2,5566.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −11.8%
- INC share
- 54.2% → 56.2%
- PSP share
- 23.1% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- — → —