Constituency
66. Muzaffarpur
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-MUZAFFARPUR
INC 43.6%won by 23.6%PSP 20.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.8% to 23.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Praja Socialist Party (PSP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.6% between them, down from 76.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.9% to 45.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,64,546
Turnout
45.6%
Valid votes
2,11,774
Margin
50,000
23.61%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1DIGVIJOY NARAIN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC92,39343.6%
- 2KANTI KUMAR SINHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP42,39320.0%
- 3MAGFOOR AHMAD AZAZISwatantra Party · SWA27,11612.8%
- 4AWADHESH NARAIN SINGHSOC · SOC15,6627.4%
- 5RAM AUTAR TIKMANIJS · JS12,8526.1%
- 6RATNA DEVIRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP9,7434.6%
- 7RAMCHALITAR SAHNIIndependent · IND9,3664.4%
- 8KRISHNA PRASAD CHOWDHARYIndependent · IND2,2491.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- −1.4%
- INC share
- 48.9% → 43.6%
- PSP share
- 23.9% → 20.0%
- Turnout
- 48.5% → 45.6%