Constituency
98. Gaya
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-GAYA
INC 43.5%won by 11.7%SWA 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.5% to 11.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.3% of the vote between them, up from 68.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.9% to 47.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,37,429
Turnout
47.7%
Valid votes
1,60,806
Margin
18,798
11.69%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BRAJESHWAR PRASADIndian National Congress · INC69,93343.5%
- 2K. BRIJKISHORE PD. SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA51,13531.8%
- 3MADAN MOHAN SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP16,96310.5%
- 4PARSURAM SINGHSOC · SOC14,4239.0%
- 5AKHILESHWAR PD. SINGHJS · JS8,3525.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −36.2%
- INC share
- 47.9% → 43.5%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- 40.7% → 47.7%