Constituency
22. Gopalganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-GOPALGANJ
INC 36.1%won by 15.8%CPI 20.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.8% to 36.1% of the vote here (+11.3%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 20.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.4% between them, down from 87.7% — 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
42,106
Margin
6,635
15.76%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RAM DULARI DEVIIndian National Congress · INC15,19736.1%
- 2DEONANDAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI8,56220.3%
- 3KAMLA PRASAD SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,18117.1%
- 4RAMADHAR PRASAD YADAVJan Asra Party · JAP5,63413.4%
- 5HARI SGHANKAR SINGHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP4,96911.8%
- 6ZAHIRUDDINIndependent · IND5631.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −9.0%
- INC share
- 24.8% → 36.1%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 20.3%
- Turnout
- — → —