Constituency
119. Rupauli
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1962
BR-RUPAULI
INC 54.1%won by 38.5%SWA 15.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.2% to 38.5%.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 15.6% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.6% between them, down from 77.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
39,685
Margin
15,275
38.49%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BRIJ BEHARI SINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,45054.1%
- 2RAMESHWAR PRASAD SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA6,17515.6%
- 3MOHIT LAL PANDITPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,65611.7%
- 4NAND KISHORE SINGHIndependent · IND3,97510.0%
- 5JAIKRISHNA THAKURSOC · SOC3,4298.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −11.4%
- INC share
- 49.9% → 54.1%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 15.6%
- Turnout
- — → —