Constituency
173. Sheikhpura
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1967
BR-SHEIKHPURA
CPI 42.9%won by 2.4%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 2.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 31.6% to 42.9% of the vote here (+11.3%).
- Multi-cornered4 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
47,163
Margin
1,143
2.42%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1L. MOCHICommunist Party of India · CPI20,23842.9%
- 2K. DEVIIndian National Congress · INC19,09540.5%
- 3Y. CHOUDHARYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,3549.2%
- 4R. PASWANIndependent · IND2,5495.4%
- 5M. RAMJKD · JKD9272.0%
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
- +22.3%
- CPI share
- 31.6% → 42.9%
- INC share
- 51.5% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- — → —