Constituency
77. Purnea
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-PURNEA
INC 55.0%won by 32.6%SWA 22.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.2% to 32.6%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 22.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,03,100
Turnout
42.5%
Valid votes
2,13,997
Margin
69,791
32.61%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PHANI GOPAL SEN GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC1,17,70555.0%
- 2BISHESHWAR NARAIN SHARMASwatantra Party · SWA47,91422.4%
- 3RISHI KANT JHASOC · SOC26,30012.3%
- 4DASRATH PRASAD CHOUDHARYPraja Socialist Party · PSP22,07810.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −19.2%
- INC share
- 51.8% → 55.0%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 22.4%
- Turnout
- 43.7% → 42.5%