Constituency
63. Kesaria
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-KESARIA
INC 53.4%won by 30.0%SWA 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.1% to 30.0%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 23.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.8% between them, down from 85.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.6% to 42.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,89,402
Turnout
42.5%
Valid votes
1,65,370
Margin
49,538
29.96%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BHISHMA PRASAD YADAVAIndian National Congress · INC88,30753.4%
- 2RAGHUNANDAN PD. NARAIN SINHASwatantra Party · SWA38,76923.4%
- 3TAHIR ALI MIANCommunist Party of India · CPI38,29423.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −23.0%
- INC share
- 52.9% → 53.4%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- 38.8% → 42.5%