Constituency
93. Buxar
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-BUXAR
INC 33.2%won by 12.1%SSP 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.4% to 12.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSamyukta Socialist Party (SSP) finished second with 21.1% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.4% between them, down from 83.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,58,072
Turnout
50.7%
Valid votes
2,82,823
Margin
34,223
12.10%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1R. S. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC94,03233.2%
- 2R. SINGHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP59,80921.1%
- 3S. PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI59,14420.9%
- 4T. PARMANANDSwatantra Party · SWA36,72913.0%
- 5R. PANDEYIndependent · IND8,3412.9%
- 6S. PANDEYIndependent · IND7,0402.5%
- 7K. K. LALIndependent · IND6,0912.2%
- 8N. K. SINGHIndependent · IND5,5111.9%
- 9B. N. SINGHIndependent · IND4,1291.5%
- 10A. LALIndependent · IND1,9970.7%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SSP swing
- −31.0%
- INC share
- 43.1% → 33.2%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- 50.1% → 50.7%