Constituency
185. Balia
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BALIA
INC 50.6%won by 38.5%PSP 12.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.7% to 38.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.8% between them, down from 72.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
34,435
Margin
13,243
38.46%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1PREMA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC17,43850.6%
- 2PHAGENDRA PRASAD YADAVPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,19512.2%
- 3CHOUDHRY MUSHTAQUE HASANCommunist Party of India · CPI3,44410.0%
- 4RAMLAKHAN PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND3,1659.2%
- 5RAMJI PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1,4264.1%
- 6JITENDRANARAIN YADAVSOC · SOC1,4074.1%
- 7RAMCHAND RAIIndependent · IND1,2963.8%
- 8SHIVA BRAT NARAIN SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA1,0693.1%
- 9JAIDEO PRASADJS · JS9952.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- +16.7%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 50.6%
- PSP share
- 25.4% → 12.2%
- Turnout
- — → —