Constituency
5. Sikta
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-SIKTA
INC 45.1%won by 5.3%LTC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.3%.
- New challengerLTC (LTC) finished second with 39.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.9% between them, down from 93.7% — the field split more ways.
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
50,828
Margin
2,685
5.28%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAIFUL AZAMIndian National Congress · INC22,90945.1%
- 2HARGUN PRASAD SHAHILTC · LTC20,22439.8%
- 3MAHANT DHANRAJ PURIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,3388.5%
- 4UMASHANKAR SHUKLACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,3576.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–LTC swing
- −38.5%
- INC share
- 43.7% → 45.1%
- LTC share
- 0.0% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- — → —