Constituency
61. Muzaffarpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-MUZAFFARPUR
INC 34.8%won by 3.5%CPI 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.0% to 3.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
45,640
Margin
1,617
3.54%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1M.L. GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC15,89334.8%
- 2R. SHARMACommunist Party of India · CPI14,27631.3%
- 3R.K. SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,87830.4%
- 4R.C. GAURPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,5933.5%
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–CPI swing
- −5.5%
- INC share
- 36.9% → 34.8%
- CPI share
- 27.9% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —