Constituency
59. Gopalganj
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-GOPALGANJ
INC 48.7%won by 19.4%PSP 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.1% to 19.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.0% between them, down from 88.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.6% to 47.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,22,101
Turnout
47.0%
Valid votes
1,98,590
Margin
38,617
19.45%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DWAIKA NATH TIWARIIndian National Congress · INC96,75348.7%
- 2SIYA BIHARI SARANPraja Socialist Party · PSP58,13629.3%
- 3RAM CHANDRA TIWARISwatantra Party · SWA43,70122.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −16.6%
- INC share
- 62.2% → 48.7%
- PSP share
- 26.1% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- 36.4% → 47.0%