Constituency
267. Kodarma
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-KODARMA
INC 42.9%won by 14.7%SWA 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: CNPSPJP (CNPSPJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.3% to 42.9% of the vote here (+8.7%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 28.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.1% between them, down from 82.7% — 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
26,558
Margin
3,908
14.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1AWADH BIHARI DIKSHITIndian National Congress · INC11,39642.9%
- 2G. P. TRIPATHYSwatantra Party · SWA7,48828.2%
- 3BISHWANATH MODISOC · SOC6,18423.3%
- 4NANKU RANAPraja Socialist Party · PSP7642.9%
- 5CHETAN GOPEIndependent · IND7262.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CNPSPJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SWA swing
- −19.5%
- INC share
- 34.3% → 42.9%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- — → —