Constituency
157. Pirpainti
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-PIRPAINTI
CPI 42.2%won by 7.0%INC 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.9% to 7.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 90.2% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
59,153
Margin
4,115
6.96%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1AMBIKA PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI24,93342.2%
- 2BADRI NARAIN RAMIndian National Congress · INC20,81835.2%
- 3RAMROOP YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,6799.6%
- 4AMANAT SHEIKHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP4,9468.4%
- 5KRISHNA DEV MANDALSHD · SHD2,7774.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +1.1%
- CPI share
- 48.0% → 42.2%
- INC share
- 42.1% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- — → —