Constituency
396. Tripura East
Community mirrorTripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-TRIPURA-EAST
INC 58.7%won by 17.5%CPM 41.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 43.8% to 58.7% of the vote here (+14.9%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 41.3% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 94.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.9% to 72.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,05,672
Turnout
72.2%
Valid votes
2,20,650
Margin
38,586
17.49%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1S. M. M. K. B. K. D .BAHADURIndian National Congress · INC1,29,61858.7%
- 2D. DEBCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM91,03241.3%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −26.4%
- INC share
- 43.8% → 58.7%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 41.3%
- Turnout
- 64.3% → 72.2%