Constituency
60. Siwan
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-SIWAN
INC 40.7%won by 18.6%JS 22.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.4% to 18.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 22.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.7% between them, down from 79.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 8.5% to 45.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,24,260
Turnout
45.2%
Valid votes
1,91,902
Margin
35,729
18.62%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MD. YUSUFIndian National Congress · INC78,03040.7%
- 2NAGENDRA NATH PATHAKJS · JS42,30122.0%
- 3PARDUMAN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP36,23418.9%
- 4RAJENDRA PRASAD SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA23,44512.2%
- 5INDERMANISOC · SOC11,8926.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −29.1%
- INC share
- 47.7% → 40.7%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 22.0%
- Turnout
- 36.7% → 45.2%