Constituency
256. Warsaliganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-WARSALIGANJ
INC 44.1%won by 9.0%CPI 35.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.8% to 9.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.2% of the vote between them, up from 29.8% — 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
38,528
Margin
3,465
8.99%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RAMKISHUN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC16,99344.1%
- 2DEONANDAN PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI13,52835.1%
- 3RAMRATAN SINGHJS · JS3,3058.6%
- 4BRAHMDEO SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,8577.4%
- 5JAI SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA1,8454.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +6.4%
- INC share
- 15.3% → 44.1%
- CPI share
- 12.7% → 35.1%
- Turnout
- — → —