Constituency
184. Khagaria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-KHAGARIA
INC 36.8%won by 13.7%SOC 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.1% to 13.7%.
- New challengerSOC (SOC) finished second with 23.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 59.8% of the vote between them, up from 46.9% — 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
43,495
Margin
5,975
13.74%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KEDAR NARAYAN SINGH AZADIndian National Congress · INC15,99236.8%
- 2RAMBAHADUR AZADSOC · SOC10,01723.0%
- 3RAMODIT SAHUSwatantra Party · SWA9,62222.1%
- 4ZAHOOR ALAMIndependent · IND6,38714.7%
- 5RAMASHISH PRASADJS · JS1,4773.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SOC swing
- −10.8%
- INC share
- 24.5% → 36.8%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —