Constituency
212. Sandesh
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-SANDESH
INC 55.8%won by 31.0%SWA 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.0% to 31.0%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 24.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.7% of the vote between them, up from 74.4% — 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
31,482
Margin
9,757
30.99%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1JHAMAN PRASADIndian National Congress · INC17,58155.8%
- 2INDRADEO SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA7,82424.9%
- 3GANPAT CHOUDHRYPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,06012.9%
- 4SAKAL RAMSOC · SOC2,0176.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −23.7%
- INC share
- 54.7% → 55.8%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —