Constituency

78. Katihar

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962

IN-KATIHAR

PSP 45.4%won by 9.7%INC 35.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 9.7%.

PSP vote sharePSP went from 14.0% to 45.4% of the vote here (+31.4%).
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.2% of the vote between them, up from 68.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

4,51,056

Turnout

40.3%

Valid votes

1,81,609

Margin

17,537

9.66%

5 contested · winner PSP

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