Constituency
225. Sasaram
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-SASARAM
INC 38.5%won by 11.8%PSP 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 21.3% to 38.5% of the vote here (+17.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.3% of the vote between them, up from 46.0% — 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
44,795
Margin
5,280
11.79%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1DUKHAN RAMIndian National Congress · INC17,26438.5%
- 2BIPAN BEHARI SINHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP11,98426.8%
- 3GURU DUTT SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA7,00915.6%
- 4PARAS NATH SINGHJS · JS3,2867.3%
- 5KHWAJA HASAN NIJAMICommunist Party of India · CPI2,8146.3%
- 6GANESH PRASAD SINGHJanahitha Paksha · JP1,1832.6%
- 7AHSAN MOHAMMADSOC · SOC1,0922.4%
- 8CHATURGUN HARIJANIndependent · IND1630.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- +15.2%
- INC share
- 21.3% → 38.5%
- PSP share
- 24.7% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —