Constituency
157. Pirpainti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-PIRPAINTI
CPI 48.0%won by 5.9%INC 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 33.2% to 48.0% of the vote here (+14.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.2% of the vote between them, up from 70.2% — 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
49,869
Margin
2,922
5.86%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1A. PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI23,94148.0%
- 2B.N. RAMIndian National Congress · INC21,01942.1%
- 3J. UDDINPraja Socialist Party · PSP2,1834.4%
- 4R.N. SAHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,0264.1%
- 5Y.P. ROYIndependent · IND7001.4%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +9.6%
- CPI share
- 33.2% → 48.0%
- INC share
- 37.0% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- — → —