Constituency
68. Pupri
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-PUPRI
INC 33.5%won by 8.4%PSP 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.3% to 8.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.6% between them, down from 87.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,15,653
Turnout
53.6%
Valid votes
2,22,657
Margin
18,772
8.43%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SASHIRANJAN PRASAD SAHIndian National Congress · INC74,65333.5%
- 2HARI KISHORE SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP55,88125.1%
- 3NASIRUDDIN HAIDER KHANSwatantra Party · SWA53,36024.0%
- 4THAKUR PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND26,52111.9%
- 5YOGENDRA PRASAD SINGHSOC · SOC12,2425.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–PSP swing
- +7.1%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 33.5%
- PSP share
- 43.1% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- 53.0% → 53.6%