Constituency
168. Sultanganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-SULTANGANJ
INC 26.6%won by 0.6%IND 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.0% to 26.6% of the vote here (+4.6%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.5% between them, down from 61.1% — 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
33,250
Margin
200
0.60%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SURESH PRASAD YADAVIndian National Congress · INC8,83526.6%
- 2JAI PRAKASH MISHRAIndependent · IND8,63526.0%
- 3SADANAND JHALTC · LTC6,99621.0%
- 4SITA RAM KISHORE PURIABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,55213.7%
- 5KAMPA MURMUPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,3244.0%
- 6SURENDRA PRASAD YADAVSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,1113.3%
- 7BASUDEO DASCommunist Party of India · CPI1,0503.2%
- 8DEO NARAIN TUDUPHJ · PHJ7472.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −17.9%
- INC share
- 22.0% → 26.6%
- IND share
- 3.5% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —