Constituency
138. Manihari
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-MANIHARI
PSP 39.5%won by 7.1%INC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedPraja Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.1% to 7.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.9% between them, down from 78.3% — 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
37,249
Margin
2,629
7.06%
Candidates
7 contested · winner PSP- 1YUVRAJPraja Socialist Party · PSP14,69839.5%
- 2RAM VILAS RAIIndian National Congress · INC12,06932.4%
- 3KAMESHWARI PRASAD MANDALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,33319.7%
- 4KEDAR MANDALSHD · SHD1,4844.0%
- 5RITLALL YADAVPBI · PBI7292.0%
- 6SUKDEO PRASAD SINHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6101.6%
- 7RUPAI SORENIndependent · IND3260.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- PSP
- PSP–INC swing
- −15.0%
- PSP share
- 50.2% → 39.5%
- INC share
- 28.1% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —