Constituency
218. Nawanagar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-NAWANAGAR
CPI 40.1%won by 5.2%INC 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.2%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 45.5% to 40.1% of the vote here (−5.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.0% between them, down from 91.3% — 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
35,364
Margin
1,856
5.25%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1SURAJ PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI14,19640.1%
- 2RAM GIRHI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,34034.9%
- 3RAMA NAND PRASAD SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA6,37818.0%
- 4CHANDRA SHEKHAR ROYIndependent · IND2,4506.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +5.5%
- CPI share
- 45.5% → 40.1%
- INC share
- 45.8% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- — → —