Results/Lok Sabha/Bihar/1962
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Bihar Lok Sabha 1962
Results board · 53 constituencies
HouseLok Sabha
StateBihar
Seats
53
Constituencies
Majority
27
Seats needed of 53
Electors
2.21Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
99.46L
45.0% of electors
Median turnout
46.3%
Median of 53 seats
INC lead
+12
Above majority · 39 − 27
[01]Seat matrix
Majority · 27 of 53INC 39 · +12 above majority
INC
3973.6%
Indian National Congress
SWA
713.2%
Swatantra Party
JP
35.7%
Jharkhand Party
PRAGAT
23.8%
Pragati Sheel Party
SOCIAL
11.9%
Socialist
CPI
11.9%
Communist Party of India
[02]Vote share
The source carries no state-level vote share for Bihar 1962.
Alliances
Not in the source for this election.
[03]Computed insights
Arithmetic · working shown-
Dumka was decided by 1,085 votes, the closest of 53 seats; Shahabad had the widest margin, 84,327.
min / max of margin over 53 seats with a recorded margin -
2 seats were won by a margin under 1%; INC won 1 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 2 of 53 · INC 1 -
In SC-reserved seats INC won 8 of 9 (88.9%), against 73.6% of all seats.
8 ÷ 9 = 88.9% · 39 ÷ 53 = 73.6% -
Turnout ran from 30.3% in Singhbhum to 60.6% in Sasaram; the median seat polled 46.3%.
min / median / max over 53 seats with a recorded turnout
Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.
[04]Turnout
< 50%
3973.6% of seats
50–60
1324.5% of seats
60–70
11.9% of seats
70–80
00.0% of seats
≥ 80%
00.0% of seats
- LowestSinghbhum30.3%
- HighestSasaram60.6%
- NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded
[05]Every seat
| # | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes polled | Margin | Margin % | Turnout % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Bagaha | Kamal Nath Tewari | Indian National Congress | 1,82,194 | 17,174 | 9.4 | 47.3 |
| 02 | MotihariSC | Bibhuti Mishra | Indian National Congress | 1,76,141 | 58,992 | 33.5 | 46.4 |
| 03 | BettiahSC | Bhola Raut | Indian National Congress | 1,41,707 | 41,790 | 29.5 | 37.3 |
| 04 | Gopalganj | Dwaika Nath Tiwari | Indian National Congress | 1,98,590 | 38,617 | 19.5 | 47.1 |
| 05 | Siwan | Md. Yusuf | Indian National Congress | 1,91,902 | 35,729 | 18.6 | 45.2 |
| 06 | Chapra | Ramsekhar Prasad Singh | Indian National Congress | 2,21,420 | 21,204 | 9.6 | 48.2 |
| 07 | Maharajganj | Krishnakanta Singh | Indian National Congress | 1,64,537 | 13,527 | 8.2 | 41.0 |
| 08 | Kesaria | Bhishma Prasad Yadava | Indian National Congress | 1,65,370 | 49,538 | 30.0 | 42.5 |
| 09 | Hajipur | Rajeshwar Patel | Indian National Congress | 2,50,637 | 21,850 | 8.7 | 59.5 |
| 10 | MahuaSC | Chandramani Lal Choudhary | Indian National Congress | 2,13,073 | 9,962 | 4.7 | 47.6 |
| 11 | Muzaffarpur | Digvijoy Narain Singh | Indian National Congress | 2,11,774 | 50,000 | 23.6 | 45.6 |
| 12 | Sitamarhi | Nagindra Pd. Yadab | Indian National Congress | 2,38,273 | 33,515 | 14.1 | 52.3 |
| 13 | Pupri | Sashiranjan Prasad Sah | Indian National Congress | 2,22,657 | 18,772 | 8.4 | 53.6 |
| 14 | Jainagar | Yamuna Prasad Mandal | Indian National Congress | 2,05,781 | 29,192 | 14.2 | 43.7 |
| 15 | Madhubani | Yogendra Jha | Pragati Sheel Party | 1,99,301 | 1,912 | 1.0 | 46.6 |
| 16 | Samastipur | Satya Naryan Sinha | Indian National Congress | 1,98,896 | 21,550 | 10.8 | 51.8 |
| 17 | Darbhanga | Shree Narayan Das | Indian National Congress | 1,93,341 | 60,337 | 31.2 | 39.6 |
| 18 | RoseraSC | Rameshwar Sahu | Indian National Congress | 1,77,997 | 67,845 | 38.1 | 41.2 |
| 19 | Saharsa | Bhupendra Narayan Mandal | Socialist | 1,97,161 | 15,133 | 7.7 | 46.2 |
| 20 | SonbarsaSC | Tulmohan Ram | Indian National Congress | 1,86,351 | 58,223 | 31.2 | 46.3 |
| 21 | Kishanganj | Mohammad Tahir | Indian National Congress | 1,80,963 | 14,555 | 8.0 | 37.2 |
| 22 | Purnea | Phani Gopal Sen Gupta | Indian National Congress | 2,13,997 | 69,791 | 32.6 | 42.5 |
| 23 | Katihar | Priya Gupta | Pragati Sheel Party | 1,81,609 | 17,537 | 9.7 | 40.3 |
| 24 | RajmahalSC | Iswar Marandi | Jharkhand Party | 1,41,377 | 18,676 | 13.2 | 36.3 |
| 25 | Godda | Prabhudayal Himmatsingka | Indian National Congress | 1,84,004 | 19,585 | 10.6 | 46.5 |
| 26 | DumkaSTCLOSEST | Satya Chandra Besra | Indian National Congress | 1,33,643 | 1,085 | 0.8 | 33.5 |
| 27 | Banka | Shakuntala Devi | Indian National Congress | 1,58,567 | 37,394 | 23.6 | 38.5 |
| 28 | Bhagalpur | Bhagwat Jha Azad | Indian National Congress | 2,03,756 | 61,129 | 30.0 | 46.7 |
| 29 | Monghyr | Banarsi Prasad Sinha | Indian National Congress | 1,93,402 | 49,901 | 25.8 | 51.6 |
| 30 | JamuiSC | Nayantara Das | Indian National Congress | 2,04,865 | 45,796 | 22.4 | 50.2 |
| 31 | Khagaria | Jiyalal Mandal | Indian National Congress | 2,20,033 | 61,069 | 27.8 | 51.0 |
| 32 | Begusarai | Mathura Prasad Mishra | Indian National Congress | 2,08,012 | 54,720 | 26.3 | 51.4 |
| 33 | Nalanda | Sidheshwar Prasad | Indian National Congress | 2,20,425 | 36,914 | 16.8 | 48.6 |
| 34 | Barh | Tarkeshwari Sinha | Indian National Congress | 1,85,787 | 38,221 | 20.6 | 49.3 |
| 35 | Patna | Ramdulari Devi | Indian National Congress | 2,26,536 | 25,082 | 11.1 | 56.6 |
| 36 | ShahabadWIDEST | Bali Ram Bhagat | Indian National Congress | 2,17,628 | 84,327 | 38.8 | 52.4 |
| 37 | Buxar | Anant Prasad Sharma | Indian National Congress | 2,27,391 | 5,516 | 2.4 | 50.1 |
| 38 | Bikramganj | Ram Subhag Singh | Indian National Congress | 2,27,180 | 10,664 | 4.7 | 53.7 |
| 39 | SasaramSC | Jagjivan Ram | Indian National Congress | 2,52,531 | 53,995 | 21.4 | 60.6 |
| 40 | Aurangabad | Lalita Rajya Laxmi | Swatantra Party | 1,64,706 | 9,761 | 5.9 | 40.2 |
| 41 | Jahanabad | Satyabhama Devi | Indian National Congress | 2,21,449 | 34,829 | 15.7 | 50.7 |
| 42 | NawadaSC | Ramdhani Das | Indian National Congress | 1,93,032 | 71,394 | 37.0 | 45.9 |
| 43 | Gaya | Brajeshwar Prasad | Indian National Congress | 1,60,806 | 18,798 | 11.7 | 47.7 |
| 44 | Chatra | Vijaya Raje | Swatantra Party | 1,40,828 | 35,304 | 25.1 | 37.1 |
| 45 | Giridih | Thakur Bateshwar Singh | Swatantra Party | 1,24,309 | 3,458 | 2.8 | 33.2 |
| 46 | Dhanbad | P. R. Chakravarti | Indian National Congress | 1,98,805 | 24,206 | 12.2 | 44.0 |
| 47 | Hazari Bagh | Basant Narain Singh | Swatantra Party | 1,21,273 | 46,611 | 38.4 | 30.7 |
| 48 | Ranchi East | Prashanta Kumar Ghosh | Swatantra Party | 1,33,959 | 5,023 | 3.8 | 35.8 |
| 49 | Jamshedpur | Udaikar Mishra | Communist Party of India | 1,74,488 | 19,805 | 11.4 | 40.1 |
| 50 | SinghbhumST | Haricharan Soy | Jharkhand Party | 1,25,343 | 17,638 | 14.1 | 30.3 |
| 51 | Ranchi WestST | Jaipal Singh | Jharkhand Party | 1,96,570 | 50,878 | 25.9 | 46.7 |
| 52 | LohardagaST | David Munzni | Swatantra Party | 1,31,722 | 16,370 | 12.4 | 35.8 |
| 53 | Palamau | Shashank Manjari | Swatantra Party | 1,40,145 | 44,609 | 31.8 | 36.3 |
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 84,327 votes
Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1962 · Bihar · 53 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database
Vote share and alliancesThe source has no state-level summary for this election