Constituency
196. Rajgir
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-RAJGIR
INC 56.9%won by 22.9%SWA 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: CNPSPJP (CNPSPJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.9% to 56.9% of the vote here (+32.9%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.9% of the vote between them, up from 50.3% — 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
31,801
Margin
7,272
22.87%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BALDEO PRASADIndian National Congress · INC18,09156.9%
- 2RAMPHAL ARYASwatantra Party · SWA10,81934.0%
- 3YADU PRASADJS · JS2,8919.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CNPSPJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SWA swing
- −1.1%
- INC share
- 23.9% → 56.9%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → —