Election
Constituency

214. Shahpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 1969

BR-SHAHPUR

SSP 52.3%won by 35.7%INC 16.6%

What changed here

Derived

Samyukta Socialist Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.1% to 35.7%.

  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.9% between them, down from 93.0% — the field split more ways.
  • Safe seatSamyukta Socialist Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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
50,441
Margin
17,999
35.68%

Candidates

7 contested · winner SSP
  1. 1RAMA NAND TIWARISamyukta Socialist Party · SSP26,37152.3%
  2. 2SARJU PRASAD UPADHYAIndian National Congress · INC8,37216.6%
  3. 3SATYADEO PANDEYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,24916.4%
  4. 4RAM PALAK SINGHIndependent · IND6,29812.5%
  5. 5KEDAR NATH MISHRAIndependent · IND3990.8%
  6. 6BALESAR TIWARIRashtriya Rashtrawadi Party · RRP3770.7%
  7. 7MAHESH TIWARIBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD3750.7%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
SSP
Winner now
SSP
SSP–INC swing
+18.6%
SSP share
55.0% → 52.3%
INC share
38.0% → 16.6%
Turnout
— → —
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