Constituency
219. Buxar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BUXAR
INC 61.3%won by 32.2%PSP 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.8% to 32.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.5% of the vote between them, up from 60.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
34,909
Margin
11,227
32.16%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1JAGNARAIN TRIVEDIIndian National Congress · INC21,40861.3%
- 2RAM NARESH SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP10,18129.2%
- 3UMANATH CHOUBAYSOC · SOC3,3209.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- +16.4%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 61.3%
- PSP share
- 22.2% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —