Constituency
26. Mirganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-MIRGANJ
INC 48.8%won by 23.4%CPM 25.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.0% to 48.8% of the vote here (+17.8%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 25.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.1% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — 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
34,809
Margin
8,161
23.45%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1ANANT PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC16,97148.8%
- 2VISHWA NATH SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,81025.3%
- 3RAM SHANKAR RAIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,92114.1%
- 4SIYA BIHARI SHARANRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1,4734.2%
- 5KESHAV PANDEYSwatantra Party · SWA1,4464.2%
- 6ALI AHMADIndependent · IND1,1883.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −7.5%
- INC share
- 31.0% → 48.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 25.3%
- Turnout
- — → —