Constituency
82. Banka
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-BANKA
INC 55.1%won by 23.6%SWA 31.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.5% to 23.6%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 31.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.6% of the vote between them, up from 66.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,12,008
Turnout
38.5%
Valid votes
1,58,567
Margin
37,394
23.58%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SHAKUNTALA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC87,35955.1%
- 2KAZI S.A. MATINSwatantra Party · SWA49,96531.5%
- 3RAJENDRA PRASAD CHOUDHARYJanahitha Paksha · JP21,24313.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −27.6%
- INC share
- 51.2% → 55.1%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 31.5%
- Turnout
- 39.5% → 38.5%