Constituency
238. Belaganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-BELAGANJ
INC 27.8%won by 4.9%SHD 22.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.5% to 27.8% of the vote here (−3.7%).
- New challengerSHD (SHD) finished second with 22.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 50.8% between them, down from 69.4% — 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
54,960
Margin
2,701
4.91%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1MITHLESHWAR PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC15,30327.8%
- 2RAMESHWAR PRASAD YADAVSHD · SHD12,60222.9%
- 3SACHIDA NAND SINGHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP9,72017.7%
- 4PARASH NATH SINGHIndependent · IND7,13013.0%
- 5BAIDTHNATH SHARMACommunist Party of India · CPI6,26511.4%
- 6AWADH BIHARI S . MISHRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,9695.4%
- 7LAXMI PRASADIndependent · IND9711.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SHD swing
- −26.6%
- INC share
- 31.5% → 27.8%
- SHD share
- 0.0% → 22.9%
- Turnout
- — → —