Constituency
164. Amarpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-AMARPUR
SSP 26.3%won by 0.3%BJS 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedSamyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.4% to 0.3%.
- 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 52.4% between them, down from 62.0% — 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
59,723
Margin
159
0.27%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SSP- 1SUKHNARAIN SINGHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP15,73426.3%
- 2JANARDAN PRASAD YADAVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS15,57526.1%
- 3MANHARAN KUMARIndian National Congress · INC13,89923.3%
- 4WALESHWAR PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI7,99413.4%
- 5SHYAM NARAIN SINGHSHD · SHD4,3757.3%
- 6KAMLESHWARI JHALTC · LTC2,1463.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- SSP
- SSP–BJS swing
- −2.1%
- SSP share
- 32.2% → 26.3%
- BJS share
- 29.8% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —