Constituency
226. Dehri
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-DEHRI
INC 65.1%won by 40.4%PSP 24.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 40.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.8% to 65.1% of the vote here (+31.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.8% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — 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
47,970
Margin
19,379
40.40%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL QAIYUM ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC31,22465.1%
- 2BASAWAN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP11,84524.7%
- 3LAKHAN LALCommunist Party of India · CPI1,9264.0%
- 4DEOKI NANDAN PRASADSOC · SOC1,6023.3%
- 5SHYAM PRASAD SINGHJS · JS1,3732.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- +49.4%
- INC share
- 33.8% → 65.1%
- PSP share
- 42.8% → 24.7%
- Turnout
- — → —