Constituency
230. Dawath
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-DAWATH
INC 31.5%won by 8.9%CPI 22.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.3% to 8.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.2% between them, down from 77.3% — 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
37,087
Margin
3,308
8.92%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1KRISHNARAJ SINGHIndian National Congress · INC11,69631.5%
- 2SANT PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI8,38822.6%
- 3WASI AHMEDSwatantra Party · SWA6,57217.7%
- 4BRIJ BEHARI CHAUDHARYSOC · SOC4,62012.5%
- 5LOTAN SHARMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,62012.5%
- 6NANDKESHWAR SINGHJS · JS6881.9%
- 7BANKEY BEHARY SINGHRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP5031.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −13.4%
- INC share
- 49.8% → 31.5%
- CPI share
- 27.5% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —