Election
Constituency

179. Kharagpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1969

BR-KHARAGPUR

SSP 38.9%won by 0.8%INC 38.1%

What changed here

Derived

Samyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.3% to 0.8%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.0% between them, down from 88.1% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
52,235
Margin
418
0.80%

Candidates

6 contested · winner SSP
  1. 1SAMSER JANG BAHADUR SINGHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP20,32238.9%
  2. 2RAJENDRA PD. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC19,90438.1%
  3. 3RAM BILASH SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI4,3678.4%
  4. 4TARNI MANDALSHD · SHD4,2698.2%
  5. 5RAJ KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,7105.2%
  6. 6INDU BHUSHAN SINGHIndependent · IND6631.3%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
SSP
Winner now
SSP
SSP–INC swing
−24.5%
SSP share
56.7% → 38.9%
INC share
31.4% → 38.1%
Turnout
— → —
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