Constituency
96. Aurangabad
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-AURANGABAD
INC 39.8%won by 23.9%SSP 16.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.3% to 39.8% of the vote here (+6.6%).
- New challengerSamyukta Socialist Party (SSP) finished second with 16.0% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.8% between them, down from 72.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.1% to 43.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,57,937
Turnout
43.3%
Valid votes
2,41,829
Margin
57,679
23.85%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1M. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC96,33539.8%
- 2M. SINGHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP38,65616.0%
- 3K. A. KIRDARPraja Socialist Party · PSP35,17514.5%
- 4S. MANJHARIJKD · JKD25,16310.4%
- 5M. MISSIRBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS22,0689.1%
- 6K. SINGHIndependent · IND9,5413.9%
- 7R. SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA8,8293.7%
- 8B. M. K. SINHAIndependent · IND6,0622.5%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SSP swing
- −9.4%
- INC share
- 33.3% → 39.8%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 16.0%
- Turnout
- 40.2% → 43.3%