Constituency
69. Jainagar
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-JAINAGAR
INC 49.1%won by 14.2%CPI 34.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.3% to 14.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.0% between them, down from 90.2% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,71,460
Turnout
43.6%
Valid votes
2,05,781
Margin
29,192
14.19%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1YAMUNA PRASAD MANDALIndian National Congress · INC1,01,00249.1%
- 2BHOGENDRA JHACommunist Party of India · CPI71,81034.9%
- 3MOHAMMAD ABDUL GHAFOORSwatantra Party · SWA32,96916.0%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +4.9%
- INC share
- 49.7% → 49.1%
- CPI share
- 40.5% → 34.9%
- Turnout
- 42.6% → 43.6%