Constituency
194. Bihar North
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BIHAR-NORTH
INC 47.3%won by 13.1%CPI 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.5% to 13.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.6% of the vote between them, up from 66.9% — 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
40,812
Margin
5,361
13.14%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SYED WASIUDDIN AHMEDIndian National Congress · INC19,32447.3%
- 2HABIBUR RAHMANCommunist Party of India · CPI13,96334.2%
- 3BIRENDRA PRASADJS · JS5,72114.0%
- 4DINA NATH UPADHYAYAHMS · HMS9982.4%
- 5BISHWANATH PRASADPraja Socialist Party · PSP5041.2%
- 6SHRI KRISHNA PRASADIndependent · IND3020.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +2.6%
- INC share
- 38.7% → 47.3%
- CPI share
- 28.2% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —