Constituency
220. Ramgarh
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-RAMGARH
INC 41.6%won by 13.2%PSP 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.1% to 13.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 28.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.1% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
39,330
Margin
5,177
13.16%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BISHWANATH RAIIndian National Congress · INC16,37441.6%
- 2DASRATH TIWARYPraja Socialist Party · PSP11,19728.5%
- 3CHHABINATH SINGHSOC · SOC8,63622.0%
- 4JAGANNATH PANDEYRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP1,9044.8%
- 5RAM PRASAD SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA1,2193.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −37.9%
- INC share
- 51.1% → 41.6%
- PSP share
- 0.0% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- — → —