Constituency
90. Patna
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-PATNA
INC 44.9%won by 11.1%CPI 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.1% to 11.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 12.4% to 56.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,00,456
Turnout
56.6%
Valid votes
2,26,536
Margin
25,082
11.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RAMDULARI DEVIIndian National Congress · INC1,01,68744.9%
- 2RAMAVATAR SHASHTRICommunist Party of India · CPI76,60533.8%
- 3MAHTAB LALL SINGHJS · JS14,7316.5%
- 4GOPI RAMIndependent · IND13,7056.0%
- 5REYAZUR REHMANIndependent · IND13,4235.9%
- 6RAJENDERA PRASAD GUPTAHMS · HMS6,3852.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +5.0%
- INC share
- 53.0% → 44.9%
- CPI share
- 47.0% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- 44.2% → 56.6%