Constituency
58. Kanti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-KANTI
INC 70.5%won by 58.0%SSP 12.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.7% to 58.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerSamyukta Socialist Party (SSP) finished second with 12.4% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.9% of the vote between them, up from 72.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
53,497
Margin
31,034
58.01%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1M.P. SINHAIndian National Congress · INC37,69370.5%
- 2Y.P. SHARMASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP6,65912.4%
- 3S.S. RAIPraja Socialist Party · PSP5,41710.1%
- 4H. RAHMANIndependent · IND2,6905.0%
- 5S.S. PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0381.9%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SSP swing
- +16.9%
- INC share
- 41.1% → 70.5%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 12.4%
- Turnout
- — → —