Constituency
158. Colgong
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-COLGONG
CPI 42.2%won by 5.9%INC 36.3%
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 28.8% to 42.2% of the vote here (+13.4%).
- 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
52,963
Margin
3,121
5.89%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1N.P. SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI22,36542.2%
- 2S.M. AHMADIndian National Congress · INC19,24436.3%
- 3C.L. MANDALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS6,99913.2%
- 4U. GANIJKD · JKD2,4424.6%
- 5B. SAHIndependent · IND1,9133.6%
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
- +23.7%
- CPI share
- 28.8% → 42.2%
- INC share
- 46.6% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- — → —