Constituency
253. Atri
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-ATRI
INC 42.9%won by 15.2%IND 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.2% to 15.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
30,918
Margin
4,688
15.16%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SHEO RATAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC13,26142.9%
- 2DEO CHARAN SINGHIndependent · IND8,57327.7%
- 3RAMESHWAR PRASAD YADAVAIndependent · IND3,55611.5%
- 4SIYA RAM SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA2,6928.7%
- 5SAHDEO SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,4224.6%
- 6PRASIDH SINGHSOC · SOC9403.0%
- 7RAM NANDAN PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND4741.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −10.1%
- INC share
- 49.7% → 42.9%
- IND share
- 24.5% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- — → —