Constituency
198. Chandi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-CHANDI
PSP 33.3%won by 5.3%SWA 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 5.3%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 0.0% to 33.3% of the vote here (+33.3%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 27.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.2% between them, down from 71.8% — the field split more ways.
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
32,733
Margin
1,749
5.34%
Candidates
10 contested · winner PSP- 1RAM RAJ PRASAD SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP10,89033.3%
- 2JAGAT KISHORE PRASAD NARAIN SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA9,14127.9%
- 3DEOGAN PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC6,46819.8%
- 4DHANRAJ BELDARIndependent · IND1,3174.0%
- 5SHEOBALAK PASWANCommunist Party of India · CPI1,2243.7%
- 6JAGDISH PASWANIndependent · IND1,0423.2%
- 7BHAGWAT SINGHJS · JS1,0383.2%
- 8KARMU CHAUHANIndependent · IND9332.9%
- 9PARMESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND3641.1%
- 10RAM SHARAN PRASADIndependent · IND3161.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–SWA swing
- +5.3%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 33.3%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —