Election
Constituency

243. Nabinagar

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1962

BR-NABINAGAR

INC 57.7%won by 33.5%SWA 24.2%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 33.5%.

  • New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 24.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.0% of the vote between them, up from 62.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
29,170
Margin
9,777
33.52%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1SATYENDRA NARAIN SINHAIndian National Congress · INC16,84457.7%
  2. 2AWADESHWAR PRAKASH SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA7,06724.2%
  3. 3GOPAL SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,02310.4%
  4. 4MURLI SINGHSOC · SOC1,2644.3%
  5. 5DUDHESHWAR RAIJS · JS9723.3%

Since 1957

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–SWA swing
+1.4%
INC share
32.1% → 57.7%
SWA share
0.0% → 24.2%
Turnout
— → —
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