Constituency
248. Barachatti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-BARACHATTI
SWA 38.5%won by 4.6%INC 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Swatantra Party (SWA), which now leads by 4.6%.
- SWA vote shareSWA went from 0.0% to 38.5% of the vote here (+38.5%).
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
22,186
Margin
1,016
4.58%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SWA- 1MUSTAQUE ALI KHANSwatantra Party · SWA8,54638.5%
- 2SHREEDHAR NARAINIndian National Congress · INC7,53033.9%
- 3RAM CHANDRA YADAVAPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,61220.8%
- 4GIRDHARI GOPESOC · SOC1,4986.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- SWAflipped
- SWA–INC swing
- +30.6%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 38.5%
- INC share
- 26.0% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —