Constituency
67. Sitamarhi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-SITAMARHI
SSP 25.0%won by 1.7%CPI 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP), which now leads by 1.7%.
- SSP vote shareSSP went from 0.0% to 25.0% of the vote here (+25.0%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 23.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.3% between them, down from 57.7% — 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
58,417
Margin
992
1.70%
Candidates
9 contested · winner SSP- 1SHYAM SUNDER DASSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP14,60125.0%
- 2RAM SWAROOP SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI13,60923.3%
- 3SHRI BHAGWAN SAHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,97522.2%
- 4KISHORI LAL SAHIndian National Congress · INC8,03413.8%
- 5RAJENDRA RAIIndependent · IND4,3117.4%
- 6RAM SEWAKK SARAN YADAVPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,1067.0%
- 7RAM KISHORE PRASADIndependent · IND4290.7%
- 8MOHAMAD SAFIIndependent · IND1980.3%
- 9JAGESHWAR KHIRHARIndependent · IND1540.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SSPflipped
- SSP–CPI swing
- +1.7%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 25.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —