Constituency
191. Barh
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BARH
INC 46.9%won by 6.5%SWA 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 6.5%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 40.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.3% of the vote between them, up from 49.4% — 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
33,849
Margin
2,185
6.46%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RANA SHEOLAKH PATI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC15,86546.9%
- 2RAMJI CHOUDHARYSwatantra Party · SWA13,68040.4%
- 3MANIKANT AZADIndependent · IND2,5807.6%
- 4RAJENDRA SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP9622.8%
- 5JAGARNATH DASIndependent · IND7622.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −22.1%
- INC share
- 28.5% → 46.9%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —