Constituency
210. Bikram
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BIKRAM
INC 42.7%won by 23.4%IND 19.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.1% to 23.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Praja Socialist Party (PSP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.0% between them, down from 90.9% — 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
42,694
Margin
10,009
23.44%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1MANORMA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC18,23842.7%
- 2RAMAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND8,22919.3%
- 3CHANDRASEKHAR SHARMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP7,32717.2%
- 4SHAMSHER SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA4,56310.7%
- 5LAKHAN KUMAR SAOIndependent · IND1,7944.2%
- 6GULZARA SINGHIndependent · IND9572.2%
- 7RAM PRASAD RAISOC · SOC9232.2%
- 8HARIHAR SAOIndependent · IND6631.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −26.3%
- INC share
- 52.5% → 42.7%
- IND share
- 2.8% → 19.3%
- Turnout
- — → —